What a typical response (on this mailing list). The arrogant and pompous undertones of your email are ridiculous. Heaven forbid a vendor actually try to work with the project to achieve support and compatibility standards.
Josh
-----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Brady Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 12:31 PM To: Kumar, Ranjan Cc: CentOS-devel@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Cent OS 5.5 Clustering and Support
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Kumar, Ranjan wrote:
Hi,
We are a Channel product team within LSI and we are trying to add Cent
OS 5.5 to our compatibility Matrix. We found out that LSI currently
has
a relationship with CentOS for another project on the Internal Storage
division but not with the OS Certification team. We require some information on CentOS which will help us plan the deliverables. And considering the timelines we need to deliver at it will be great if someone from CentOS can help us out in this regard. If anybody else
also
can answer these in the mailing list, we would be grateful. The questions that we have are as follows:-
Cluster Support :
Does CentOS 5.5 provides native cluster support ?
It's obvious that your research hasn't told you anything about what CentOS is. Via google, and via the website http://www.centos.org/, you can learn that CentOS 5.5 is technically the same as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5.
It is the same source code, but compiled by different people, except where branding changes are required, where the source code will be changed to change branding information only.
CentOS 5.5 has the same native cluster support as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 does.
Is there any cluster suite available for CentOS 5.5 ?
Yes, the Red Hat Cluster Suite is included with CentOS 5.5.
Can we use the cluster suite in CentOS 4 for 5.5.
No.
Does CentOS have any self Certification tool which allows
Not as far as I know, but you should do your own research on this, rather than ask us to do it for you.
One we start our qualification, we might need some help in resolving issues/defects on CentOS. Can we open a channel or Point of contact
who
will be able to help us out with such issues.
CentOS support and engineering channels are described on the CentOS website. But in general CentOS does does not make any technical change in the kernel or clustering software - it is bug for bug compatible with the software produced by Red Hat.
I would also request to forward this email to the right forum if the mailing list we are sending to is not the appropriate one.
No mailing list will do this for you. You need to do your own homework.
Thanks and Regards. Kumar Ranjan LSI Technologies.
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