[CentOS] Air Conditioning - ON!

Tue Feb 22 22:56:41 UTC 2011
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 02/22/2011 02:35 PM, Ian Murray wrote:
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>> Calling it  Enterprise is important because doing so establishes the
>> *origin* and the  *objective* of the work: a BUG-FOR-BUG-IDENTICAL
>> de-branding/re-branding of  Red Hat ENTERPRISE Linux.
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> How about BugforbugIdenticaldebreandingrebrandingofupstreamenterpriselinuxOS?
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> Only joking. I take your point, but the critical fixes being held up for a dot 
> release isn't really very Enterprise friendly either. I think it fair to say 
> that CentOS is not suitable for the enterprise unless the servers are 
> non-public, on a secure network and the risk of internal hacking is low. That is 
> just an unfortunate nature of a rebuild project but it does make the release 
> time a sensitive matter.
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> Karanbir tweeted during FOSDEM that the Belgian police use CentOS. As everyone 
> who is paying attention knows that any exploit that RedHat has released an 
> updated package for post is 5.6 is sat waiting to be exploited on those police 
> servers because it won't make the CentOS repositories until 5.6 is out. I wonder 
> if the Belgian police know that.
> 
> So.... if anybody can be bothered to check the errata from upstream and want to 
> do some mischief.....fill your boots...
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> http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.polfed-fedpol.be
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>>> If you can't adjust the release time, then  adjust the expectations. 
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>> We have: It's done when it's done.  That's  what we expect, and that's
>> what we get.  On time, every time.
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> I did think about that when when I made my earlier comment. The trouble is is 
> that it obviously isn't working because we have these list flame-ups.

I think 8 million unique machines disagree with you assessment.  Who
knows, maybe all 8 million are wrong and the 10-20 people who are
discussing it on this list are right.

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