On 05/05/2014 05:55 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
On Mon, 5 May 2014, Karsten Wade wrote:
The CentOS Project has a 10 year anniversary coming up -- 14 May 2004.
not sure where ** that ** date comes from
From: caos@caosity.org (Rocky McGaugh) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 09:30:23 -0600 (CST) Subject: [cAos] Announce: centos Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0312090905120.10370-100000@rocky
The cAos-EL projects have been officially renamed to:
centos (Community ENTerprise Operating System)
This only affects caosel1 and caosel2.
This is partly an aid in dispelling the version confusion.
======== centos-1
Description: centos-1 is a freely distributable OS built from the source at:
-- Russ herrold
The first thing we, the CentOS Board, decided was that we would base the anniversary on a release date and not a formation date. We decided that it was when something was accomplished, not when something was formed ... and we wanted to base the anniversary a release.
Then we needed to pick which release we wanted to base it on. We decided to base it on the release date of CentOS-2.1.
Technically, the CentOS-3.1 release date (19 March 2004) happened earlier than the CentOS-2.1 release date (14 May 2004) ... but since EL 2.1 was released before EL 3.0 (or 3.1) by Red Hat, we decided to go with the CentOS-2.1 release date.
So, that is the reason.
Thanks for your input.