On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 09:36, Simon Perreault wrote:
i'm not sure you've considered your position thoroughly. I am, and I will say it again just for the shock value: Red Hat is the main developer of CentOS.
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:
I'd put it this way instead: Red Hat is responsible for any difficulty in creating the CentOS distribution, while sharing the same upstream developers as all other Linux distributions.
From: Maciej ?enczykowski maze@cela.pl
BULLSHIT
And so it begins. I think we've all had our say at this point.
I can understand (although not agree) with Les' viewpoint. And I'm sure Simon feels like I do, Red Hat doesn't get due credit.
But this is why I dislike these "distro contests" in the first place. The are entirely subjective and full of "absolutes" and "versus." Reality is that there is much so much overlap.
*** Because we all stand on the shoulders of each other! ***
Vote CentOS if you like it best. Vote RHEL if you like it best. Do it on your own opinion for your own reasons.
I laid out what I thought mine were before. At least one person liked it.
I try not to talk in "absolutes." And try to understand why RHEL and CentOS exists, let alone the Fedora Core and Red Hat Linux lineages. Apparently people want to debate this from a marketing/branding, and that's _always_ going to be "subjective."
There are those of us who aren't upset with Red Hat, and deploy _both_ RHEL and CentOS for various reasons. And there are those others of us who are upset with Red Hat, and believe CentOS should not have to exist, that Red Hat should be providing it. And I'm sure there are others who wonder why people don't just run Fedora Core, or another distro for that matter.
And yet other viewpoints different from those.
It's all GPL, so lets just appreciate each other. This is what I meant by people focusing more on ripping companies that produce GPL incompatible software, like IBM, Sun (sans OpenOffice.org), etc...
<Flammatory=on> Red Hat v. CentOS, etc... -- it's like being a Christian watching Cathlotics and Protestants argue their religious viewpoints in Northern Ireland. Because in the end, it's really about focusing on differences than similarities -- and it doesn't matter how close those similarities are, people can find differences if they want.
Sorry for this political analogy, but it pretty much fits well. At least from my ignorant American viewpoint. </Flammatory>
-- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org