[CentOS] Will CentOS become obsolete now because of the changes Red Hat is implementing?

[R P Herrold]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, robert mena wrote:

> yeah but he wants to hear from the horse's mouth....
>
> Who knows what the guy really said when a reporter quotes something....

The 'pull quotes' attributed to me (the horse in question) by 
the Reg are accurate and carry good context

Anyone who follows this mailing list and -devel or my blog, 
has seen the balance of what I said, over and over.  People 
who want to understand how to solve the issues of rebuilding 
... need to roll up their sleeves and get down and dirty doing 
rebuilds, so they see and learn how to solve the issues. 
Talking about it, speculating, conducting 'thought 
experiments' about what _should_ happen do little that is 
useful

There is no magic bullet or shortcut to becoming a rebuilder, 
no 'secret sauce' as hughesjr says.  Just systematic problem 
solving

Exactly ONE PERSON has followed through since I offered 
private guidance over three months ago, and that person now 
has a server oriented, trimmed down RHEL 6 sources rebuild. 
I offered pointers, but they learned by doing.  I am proud to 
see the install CD sized ISOs for i386 and x86_64 rather than 
the bloat DVD images of RHEL (some surgery to anaconda was 
required, and that spin does not seek binary identical 
replication of the upstream, so it is not a CentOS clone or 
competitor.  I'll probably offer the image at pmman soon)

It's not magic folks

-- Russ herrold