So I was sending some money off to Firefox today for a hat. And I was thinking, I haven't donated money to CentOS yet. It's just sitting here, running. It's acting as a web server, mail server, mail filter, spam filter, samba and print server and many other things. More importantly, it's done its job so consistently for so long that sometimes I basically forget about it. I run Yum once in a while and otherwise I leave it. For so many years I upgraded every 6 months. Red Hat 6 through 7.1, I think. Mandrake 8 to 9. SuSE 8 to 9.1. Fedora Core 1 and 2. Finally I stumbled on CentOS and I haven't touched my OS substantially in quite some time.
So I donated finally today. Just a little. Hopefully more later. But I figured while I was at it I'd say a couple things.
#1 - Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I don't think that gets said enough. But to those of you who make this happen, thank you. You almost take it for granted sometimes when you have a distro that is so stable and consistent that you barely have to think about it. Your efforts, while sometimes forgotten because of how consistent they are, aren't forgotten. And thanks to Red Hat as well. :)
#2 - We need some CentOS schwag. Shirts, hats, maybe a place where someone like me would happily put down the money for some printed documentation and an official DVD. I know all of that stuff comes with a cost and a price, but I'd love to see it happen someday and would gladly snap up some CentOS gear. Great distro.
Keep up the excellent work.
Preston