On 6/17/20 10:19 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > ... > I wonder about the authors conclusion; the fact that RHEL is the choice > for critical applications (what ever critical is) is known since the > early days. This applies randomly to C5.11, C4.9 or C8.2.2004. > > So - cold soup get cooked again :-) Indeed. The author's conclusion has been the case since White Box Enterprise Linux was a thing. Anyone and everyone can get the sources from git.centos.org as soon as they are released and build the stuff themselves if they think it can be done faster; that's how WBEL got started, as a one-user project that just happened to be publicly released. Building from source has never really been any easier; the lack of .src.rpms is not an impediment to just getting something built. But the CentOS value-add is that those rebuilt sources have been tested for binary compatibility and are from a trusted source. A one-person project like WBEL would have a much more difficult time today, with modularity especially. Build times for these packages is not zero.