On 4/30/05, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 07:05 -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > John, > > > > I just wanna say THANK YOU for the AWESOME distro and keep up the > > fantastic work. CentOS 4 is definitely without a doubt the most > > rock-solid, outa-the-box distro I've ever used. And I'm loving every > > minute of it. I've even managed to get my boss hooked on it and now our > > linux machines are being converted to CentOS. :) I have to say dittos on all points. Unfortunately, not many bosses are willing to step outside the "pay for a license, even though it's never used, we have it in case all our admins are run over by trucks" box. My employer has <>100 workstations and a few dozen servers. Most of this is RH9 stuff, and we're getting reading to buy lots of REHL3 licenses. Never would the company consider a workable alternative like CentOS. Sad, but true. > > > > I want to make sure that everyone knows this is a team effort. There are > 10 developers in 3 versions (2.1, 3.x, 4.x) and 6 arches (i386, x86_64, > ia64, s390, s390x, ppc). Not all of these are currently released, but > the ones that aren't are under continuous development. > [ snipped list of developers ] > > All that being said, for CentOS Project to be able to do some of the > things we need to do, we need cash and resources. That's just how it > is. > > CentOS is and always will be a totally free community project. > We have established a donation page > > ( http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=23 ) where we > accept payments in USD, EUR, and GBP. > Just some numbers about CentOS: > [ rest snipped ] I'll be sending in my contribution. Thanks, Johnny, for the full disclosure of CentOS information, and good luck with everything. I know you(plural)'ll keep up the good work. -- Collins When I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world.... The Berlin Wall has fallen. - Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt