> There are lots of exciting things happening in the CentOS ecosystem at > the moment, by which I mean "upstream" or "across stream" in Fedora > and RHEL. > > I'm thinking of projects that equip RH-like EL in general for serious > entry into the enterprise, things like the Fedora Directory Server, > and RedHat's Emerging Technologies projects such as Cobbler, FreeIPA > and Ovirt. Also JBoss middleware. > > Will these sort of packages end up in CentOS eventually, or are there > any major problems installing EPEL packages on CentOS? > > I know CentOS is very popular in the web hosting world, but enterprise > grade directory servers, provisioning servers and virtualisation > technologies could also see greater take up of CentOS in areas like > local government and education for example (medium sized but slightly > cash-challenged organisations). > > I suppose this is some kind of roadmap question, or a question about > using EPEL packages on CentOS. Personally, I'm interested in using > these "emerging technologies" in the local government environment. > personally i already use epel in CentOS and have had no issues - specifically i use this for cobbler/koan