On 11/11/10 00:45, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 02:57:10PM -0600, Barry Brimer wrote: >> Absolutely. Red Hat does a tremendous amount of heavy lifting to produce >> RHEL, without which there would be no CentOS. Red Hat also gets paid >> pretty well to do so, and unless I am mistaken the CentOS team does not. >> In any case, I appreciate the work of Red Hat and the CentOS team. > > Remember also that a lot of the original heavy lifting is done in Fedora, > which, while sponsored by Red Hat, is very much a community project with > significant work done without (direct) pay. So while you're appreciating, > don't forget those folks either. :) > Ah, but don't forget the upstream folks from Fedora, such as the Kernel guys the Gnome guys, KDE guys etc etc. :-P. They all help make GNU/Linux distributions what they are today :-). And yes, I too would like to thank the CentOS team and everyone else for all their hard work :-). I would help them, and contribute, but aside from money (Which I don't have at the mo :-( ) I fail to see anything I can contribute with effectively :-(. My Fedora 12 is coming to EOL soon, so I must upgrade my Fedora, but I plan to switch to CentOS6 instead :-) Albeit EL doesn't have XFCE (Last time I checked) I can sort that out, and a few other things I can easily fix (make and build custom RPM's for my self) Fedora 12 has become stable like no other Fedora release for me, so I hope that has been carried over into EL6 :-) I'm guessing it has. If not made better :-). Anyhow, once again: Thanks to all the folk that make CentOS/RHEL/Linux what it is today :-) -- Jake