There have been a number of recent conversations on the developer list and this list about CentOS. My initial thought was why not have CentOS and SL merge. Since they have different goals I can understand the reason not to. So my next question is, has no corporate entity offered to sponsor full time people to work on CentOS? It seems like a lot of companies use CentOS for various things. I can't believe no one is willing to help speed development by paying for people to build full time. Has this subject come up before?
Am 26.03.2011 um 22:16 schrieb Gary Scarborough:
There have been a number of recent conversations on the developer list and this list about CentOS. My initial thought was why not have CentOS and SL merge. Since they have different goals I can understand the reason not to. So my next question is, has no corporate entity offered to sponsor full time people to work on CentOS? It seems like a lot of companies use CentOS for various things. I can't believe no one is willing to help speed development by paying for people to build full time. Has this subject come up before?
Every couple of months.
People who have enough money to make significant contributions to this goal usually hire a couple of competent admins and do it in-house.
For the rest, there is RHEL - or OEL.
Do you think one can undercut RHAT or ORCL?
Well, I ask because there are people supporting SL to the degree that they have full time people working on it, yet they don't actually aim for 100% binary compatibility, just "good enough". I have used CentOS for a while and wasn't really aware of SL until recently. With all the projects that get supported by companies it just seems like CentOS would be a natural choice for a large technology company.
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Rainer Duffner rainer@ultra-secure.dewrote:
Am 26.03.2011 um 22:16 schrieb Gary Scarborough:
There have been a number of recent conversations on the developer list and this list about CentOS. My initial thought was why not have CentOS and SL merge. Since they have different goals I can understand the reason not to. So my next question is, has no corporate entity offered to sponsor full time people to work on CentOS? It seems like a lot of companies use CentOS for various things. I can't believe no one is willing to help speed development by paying for people to build full time. Has this subject come up before?
Every couple of months.
People who have enough money to make significant contributions to this goal usually hire a couple of competent admins and do it in-house.
For the rest, there is RHEL - or OEL.
Do you think one can undercut RHAT or ORCL?
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