On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:09:07PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> 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.
And there was also Tao Linux, which I was using back in the day.
another one-person project, which that one person did a good job
with, but when time came to change jobs he had to let the project
go. He had the foresight and grace to work with Johnny Hughes to
define a way to transition to CentOS, which worked fine, so here
I am still in the CentOS camp.
And my thanks to that original developer (whose name I cannot
dredge out of my back-brain right now), to Johnny, and all the
other folks who make CentOS great!
Fred
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