On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 21:09 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining the Red Hat family. The CentOS Project ( http://www.centos.org ) is joining forces with Red Hat. Working as part of the Open Source and Standards team ( http://community.redhat.com/ ) to foster rapid innovation beyond the platform into the next generation of emerging technologies. Working alongside the Fedora and RHEL ecosystems, we hope to further expand on the community offerings by providing a platform that is easily consumed, by other projects to promote their code while we maintain the established base.
Essentially Red Hat is slowly taking over and developing/assisting Centos to be a more regular and structure organisation. The fact that Red Hat now owns the Centos brand worries me but that's life. Absolutely nothing remains static.
Centos was created by many ordinary people to whom I am very grateful. Its a really great operating system. I genuinely like it, hence I abandoned M$ completely about 5 years ago and have never regretted it. I just wish I had migrated to Centos many years earlier.
Red Hat will gain commercially from their de facto take-over. One of the general beneficial effects will be bringing Linux into the vast mainstream of everyday computing and attracting (or should that be enticing?) M$ business users. Working as a single team with Red Hat will inevitably mean speedier updates for Centos users.
I love Linux and want this merger to succeed. I'm patiently waiting for Centos on my Cube (Android) tablet.
Happy New Year.
On 01/07/2014 07:21 PM, Always Learning wrote:
I'm patiently waiting for Centos on my Cube (Android) tablet.
What ARM ver? Is there Fedora for it? This takes lots of time, but f20 works on a lot of ARMv7 units. Now what ver of RH will that map into? :)
On 1/7/2014 8:04 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 01/07/2014 07:21 PM, Always Learning wrote:
I'm patiently waiting for Centos on my Cube (Android) tablet.
What ARM ver? Is there Fedora for it? This takes lots of time, but f20 works on a lot of ARMv7 units. Now what ver of RH will that map into?
of course, tablets also require touch pad support, and a touch-oriented UI... trying to use a mouse interface with a touch pad is an exercise in frustration
On 01/07/2014 11:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 1/7/2014 8:04 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 01/07/2014 07:21 PM, Always Learning wrote:
I'm patiently waiting for Centos on my Cube (Android) tablet.
What ARM ver? Is there Fedora for it? This takes lots of time, but f20 works on a lot of ARMv7 units. Now what ver of RH will that map into?
of course, tablets also require touch pad support, and a touch-oriented UI... trying to use a mouse interface with a touch pad is an exercise in frustration
f20 with g3.10. Supposedly. Is that what you want for Centos 8?
But Centos on ARM blades. Yes, please.
"Essentially Red Hat is slowly taking over and developing/assisting Centos to be a more regular and structure organisation. The fact that Red Hat now owns the Centos brand worries me but that's life. Absolutely nothing remains static."
Interesting how a _community_ "Brand" can be bought.
Seems that we get magical binaries for free but no insight into the build process or timelines to said creation.
Surely this was done to keep OEL at bay, but we are still caught in the crossfire and the holders of the build secrets are getting $paid$ to keep the secret.
This is opensource without useful makefiles. Something Sony and Cisco do.
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On 01/17/2014 10:15 AM, IonPacepa wrote:
"Essentially Red Hat is slowly taking over and developing/assisting Centos to be a more regular and structure organisation. The fact that Red Hat now owns the Centos brand worries me but that's life. Absolutely nothing remains static."
Interesting how a _community_ "Brand" can be bought.
Seems that we get magical binaries for free but no insight into the build process or timelines to said creation.
Surely this was done to keep OEL at bay, but we are still caught in the crossfire and the holders of the build secrets are getting $paid$ to keep the secret.
This is opensource without useful makefiles. Something Sony and Cisco do.
What the heck are you talking about ... rpmbuild -ba <name>.src.rpm
It builds if you install the proper packages from the CentOS repos.
Using mock and a CentOS Tree can reproduce CentOS just as easily.
We are creating git.centos.org so that everyone can look at and build any of the packages.
We are creating a variants program so that projects can take CentOS as a base and create (on our servers) respins of the ISOs and/or repositories that get branded as CentOS. They can collaborate, ON OUR SYSTEMS, to build things for the community to use.
I have no earthly idea what you are talking about ... although, you are certainly free to use (or not use) CentOS however you choose.
I just wish you would research your fact before you post garbage on the list.
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 13:53 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
What the heck are you talking about ... rpmbuild -ba <name>.src.rpm
It builds if you install the proper packages from the CentOS repos.
Using mock and a CentOS Tree can reproduce CentOS just as easily.
We are creating git.centos.org so that everyone can look at and build any of the packages.
We are creating a variants program so that projects can take CentOS as a base and create (on our servers) respins of the ISOs and/or repositories that get branded as CentOS. They can collaborate, ON OUR SYSTEMS, to build things for the community to use.
Sounds interesting and exciting. Its needs to get more publicity.
On 01/17/2014 01:57 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 13:53 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
What the heck are you talking about ... rpmbuild -ba <name>.src.rpm
It builds if you install the proper packages from the CentOS repos.
Using mock and a CentOS Tree can reproduce CentOS just as easily.
We are creating git.centos.org so that everyone can look at and build any of the packages.
We are creating a variants program so that projects can take CentOS as a base and create (on our servers) respins of the ISOs and/or repositories that get branded as CentOS. They can collaborate, ON OUR SYSTEMS, to build things for the community to use.
Sounds interesting and exciting. Its needs to get more publicity.
The centos-devel mailing list has had more traffic in the last 10 days than it had in the previous 9 months ... I'd say that some people have figured it out :)
It is also a link on the front page to variants/SIGs:
http://www.centos.org/variants/
We are not ready to actually create these yet, as we need to get more infrastructure and processes in place ... but we are discussing how we are going to do it and getting ready now.
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