[CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

[Christoph Maser]

Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 14:28 +0200 schrieb Johnny Hughes:
> On 09/14/2009 05:01 AM, Christoph Maser wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 11:48 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt:
> >> On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:43 +0700, David Suhendrik wrote:
> >>> The sound is bad,
> >>>
> >>> / Lance vanished from the project some time in 2008. Everybody needs
> >>> time off from projects from time to time, so there was no real need to
> >>> worry about that. What there was to worry about is the following: Lance
> >>> is the only one, who can make active changes to the centos.org domain,
> >>> as he “owns it”. Nobody else in the team is able to add nameservers, for
> >>> instance. Recently he put an anonymizing service on the domain, so that
> >>> nobody from the outside can see who that domain belongs to.
> >>> /
> >>
> >> Ummm. That mostly has been resolved around a month ago, you might want
> >> to check dates on things you mail somewhere.
> >>
> >> Ralph
> >>
> >
> >
> > Btw the homepage says:
> >
> > "
> > More information will follow soon.
> > [..]
> > Last Update: August 1, 2009 04:34 UTC by Donavan Nelson"
> >
> > Today is September 14th, so what does "soon" mean here?
> >
> > Chris
>
> Soon means we will post when something changes.
>
> The last update is still correct.
>
> The CentOS project has the domain names in question, we have released
> 4.8, we have some packages from 5.4 in question, and everything is 100%
> solved from a technical stand point.
>
> Basically CentOS is exactly what it was before any of this happened from
> a technical standpoint.
>
> Updates to packages are happening within 24 hours, 5.4 is on track and
> will soon be pushed soon.
>
> If you want a multi-billion dollar corporation behind your Linux
> distribution, then use RHEL nad pay for it.
>
> If you want what you have gotten from CentOS for the last 5 years, you
> are getting that now.
>
> Do we have to have this conversation again?
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
>


Actually I was much more interested in non technical info. Like what
happend to donations in the past. How will donations in the future be
used/handled. Will there be a cashier etc. etc.

Chris


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