[CentOS] Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux

Sun Dec 13 21:16:20 UTC 2020
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>

In the context of RHEL clones, I think we should use term "EL" instead
of "CentOS", that is now trademark owned by RH.

On 12/13/20 8:36 PM, Nikolaos Milas wrote:
> On 13/12/2020 1:05 μ.μ., Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> 
>> Just an update, name of the project will be "Lenix", and I missedin
>> announcement that unlike CentOS they plan to publish all the build tools
>> and environment so other clones can be built even if they stray, a very
>> commendable approach.
> 
> Sounds great!
> 
> It comes to mind that if Lenix and RockyLinux (and possibly other major
> forces) could merge and join efforts as a common project, the project
> could gain tremendous momentum very fast.
> 
> As was earlier mentioned, it is not easy to maintain such projects in
> the long term (despite goodwill), so joining forces would be quite safer
> for both the projects and the community, while it would also keep the
> community more focused, avoiding to disperse in multiple distros.
> 
> In any case, this is the kind of projects we would want to see, rather
> than large corporations' clones like OL.
> 
> And what I like is that there is so much energy in the CentOS community,
> that so important new projects are being announced in day zero after
> CentOS suicidal turn to Stream.
> 
> I am very confident that CentOS will live and prosper, but with a
> different name! (Unless IBM/RH **immediately** withdraw their announced
> plans and course of action.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick
> 
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