On 4/30/05, Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com wrote:
On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 07:05 -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
John,
I just wanna say THANK YOU for the AWESOME distro and keep up the fantastic work. CentOS 4 is definitely without a doubt the most rock-solid, outa-the-box distro I've ever used. And I'm loving every minute of it. I've even managed to get my boss hooked on it and now our linux machines are being converted to CentOS. :)
I have to say dittos on all points. Unfortunately, not many bosses are willing to step outside the "pay for a license, even though it's never used, we have it in case all our admins are run over by trucks" box. My employer has <>100 workstations and a few dozen servers. Most of this is RH9 stuff, and we're getting reading to buy lots of REHL3 licenses. Never would the company consider a workable alternative like CentOS. Sad, but true.
I want to make sure that everyone knows this is a team effort. There are 10 developers in 3 versions (2.1, 3.x, 4.x) and 6 arches (i386, x86_64, ia64, s390, s390x, ppc). Not all of these are currently released, but the ones that aren't are under continuous development.
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All that being said, for CentOS Project to be able to do some of the things we need to do, we need cash and resources. That's just how it is.
CentOS is and always will be a totally free community project. We have established a donation page
( http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=23 ) where we accept payments in USD, EUR, and GBP. Just some numbers about CentOS:
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I'll be sending in my contribution.
Thanks, Johnny, for the full disclosure of CentOS information, and good luck with everything. I know you(plural)'ll keep up the good work.