[Centos] suggestions for CentOS

[Lance Davis]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, John Newbigin wrote:

> What about some kind of overall color scheme? something like
> Green = cAos 1 or 2
> Red   = CentOS 3
> Blue  = CentOS 2
> 
> On the main page, show the latest announcement for each distro with it's 
> color coded icon beside it.  These could include errata announcements 
> which are issued more frequently than other distro news (for CentOS 2/3 
> anyway).
> 
> Each distro can then have a color coded info & faq page.

I am in favour of a completely separate website for CentOS , at 
www.centos.org , obviously linked to the caosity website.

This is the only way IMHO to avoid the current confusion.

Hopefully donavan is ready to start work on it :)

> 
> I think another thing we should have is a 'migration centre' which can 
> help people decide what product and procedure to use to upgrade from 
> various distros.
> 
> Something along the lines of:
> RedHat 7.2 -> reinstall with CentOS-2
>             -> reinstall with CentOS-3.1
>             -> reinstall with cAos
>             -> live update to CentOS-2
> RedHat 9   -> reinstall CentOS-3.1
>             -> live update to CentOS-3.1
> RHEL 2.1   -> live update to CentOS-2
> RHEL 3     -> live update to CentOS-3
> 
> And I am sure there are more.  For each procedure, instructions and 
> pitfalls etc can be listed, perhaps with community feedback etc.

Great idea - just needs someone to put it all together ....

> donavan nelson wrote:
> 
> > Hmmmm, do I hear my name being called here?

seems so :)

> > 
> > Lance are you around?

For the next couple of days ....

Regards
Lance

> > 
> ...
>  >> Especially making a bigger difference on
> >> the site
> >> between cAos and CentOS 3 would be great (the way the site is designed).
> >> I also regret to not find any information on google groups about that. 
> >> It's
> >> so sad.. Isn't it possible to post your e-mails to google groups (open 
> >> a new
> >> channel for centos, etc..) ?
> >>
> >> In all cases, thank you for all, I'm very pleased to use CentOS 3 and 
> >> try to
> >> make it
> >> known by others !
> >>
> >> Hope this will help..
> >>
> >> Daniel
> >>
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