On 11/11/10 00:45, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 02:57:10PM -0600, Barry Brimer wrote:
Absolutely. Red Hat does a tremendous amount of heavy lifting to produce RHEL, without which there would be no CentOS. Red Hat also gets paid pretty well to do so, and unless I am mistaken the CentOS team does not. In any case, I appreciate the work of Red Hat and the CentOS team.
Remember also that a lot of the original heavy lifting is done in Fedora, which, while sponsored by Red Hat, is very much a community project with significant work done without (direct) pay. So while you're appreciating, don't forget those folks either. :)
Ah, but don't forget the upstream folks from Fedora, such as the Kernel guys the Gnome guys, KDE guys etc etc. :-P.
They all help make GNU/Linux distributions what they are today :-).
And yes, I too would like to thank the CentOS team and everyone else for all their hard work :-). I would help them, and contribute, but aside from money (Which I don't have at the mo :-( ) I fail to see anything I can contribute with effectively :-(.
My Fedora 12 is coming to EOL soon, so I must upgrade my Fedora, but I plan to switch to CentOS6 instead :-) Albeit EL doesn't have XFCE (Last time I checked) I can sort that out, and a few other things I can easily fix (make and build custom RPM's for my self)
Fedora 12 has become stable like no other Fedora release for me, so I hope that has been carried over into EL6 :-) I'm guessing it has. If not made better :-).
Anyhow, once again: Thanks to all the folk that make CentOS/RHEL/Linux what it is today :-)