Vreme: 11/01/2011 05:27 PM, Akemi Yagi piše: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic<office at plnet.rs> wrote: >> Vreme: 11/01/2011 04:50 PM, Digimer piše: >>> On 11/01/2011 01:46 AM, Bob Hoffman wrote: >>>> I have been reading the threads on here with great ernest about redhat >>>> making a move to throw off centos compilations. >>> >>> Having spoken to folks at Red Hat in an unofficial capacity, I strongly >>> believe that CentOS is appreciated by Red Hat. Changes Red Hat makes >>> have nothing to do with "throwing off" CentOS. They do what they do for >>> reasons that, to them, make technical and business sense. Nothing more. >>> >> >> Then Red Hat should see what problems CentOS team has and try to help >> them even with behind closed doors, like giving them tips what order to >> use to build packages, etc. > > I also see that Red Hat would appreciate CentOS but may not actively > provide helping hands. > > One major contribution CentOS makes is to help maintain the Red Hat > ecosystem as was pointed out by others. If it was not for CentOS, I > would not have my current RHEL entitlement. :-) > > Real "problem" with recent release troubles with CentOS is that some > (or many?) are migrating to Ubuntu/Debian rather than to other RHEL > clones, which might eventually hurt the entire Red Hat community. See > the trend at: > > http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/os-linux > Yeah, overall loss (RHEL+CentOS+Fedoara) is almost 7%. Too bad Red Hat is blind to this trend. It WILL hurt them in the long run. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant