On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 17:38 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: <snip>
Doesn't matter at all concerning CentOS releases, updates, developers, etc. This has been the case for almost 2 months (since March 20th) ... you will notice that CentOS is no longer listed on the www.caosity.org site. See the first post on the announce list: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-March/000001.html
The CentOS Project is operating as it was from a technology standpoint. As you can see by the speed of our updates and the speed with which we released our 4.0 distro, CentOS has never been stronger.
There were issues of size required for the mirrors, who controls what servers, who makes decisions on which items are in the tree, when will certain point releases be retired, etc. We (the CentOS Project) felt that CentOS user's best interests would be served if Lance Davis were running the CentOS show.
The issues with the upstream provider and how to respond:
http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=66
were just the last in many issues where decisions for the project were being made without what we considered enough input from the developers. So, CentOS and the cAos foundation have gone in different directions.
The innovations that you currently see happening in CentOS (a desktop type kernel, single CD installers, CentOSPlus items that are integrated tightly with the base distro) will continue for those who want these innovations ... but remove the extras, contrib, centosplus repositories and CentOS will still be a rock solid Enterprise rebuild that is completely free, released as soon as humanly possible, rapidly updated, and technically compatible {down to the same bugs :)} with the upstream product.
The short answer ... you will notice no impact :)
And ... just for the record again, I want to make sure that everyone understands that I am not saying anything negative about anyone at the cAos Foundation. They are nice people and have good products. I think the cinch installer is very nice ... as is Warewulf. cAos-2 is a fine distro, try it out.
It was just time for them to do what is best for cAos and us to do what is best for CentOS.