On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:17:41 -0500, Scott Sharkey <ssharkey at linuxunlimited.com> wrote: > CentOS will continue, even if RedHat is purchased by Microsoft and > absorbed by the borg... Several people have said this on this thread. I don't know if it's true. Maintaining CentOS is (I over-simplify) rebuilding RH's SRPMs. Without the SRPMs, it takes a lot of people to backport patch all the packages, compile, test/QA,... It's what the Fedora Legacy project is currently doing and it is a lot of work for a lot of people. Work very different in nature from the "simple" rebuilding required to maintain CentOS. Please don't think I'm taking credit away from the CentOS maintainers. My point is simply that there is no guarantee that this community would adapt and become another Fedora Legacy. After all, we'd all be using RHL and FC with FL updates if that was we wanted. We're here because we want to use RHEL w/o RH. Very different crowd and needs. Francois