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W4GPL
05-13-2011, 09:31 AM
http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/en/2011/05/the-rise-and-fall-of-centos.html
http://dag.wieers.com/blog/centos-devel-ml-feels-like-devnull

Those of us who have been following the Centos development mailing list have seen this coming for quite some time.

Scientific Linux looks promising and has quite a bit of hefty support behind it.

Perhaps the end of an era for a prominent Linux distribution.
KC2UGV
05-13-2011, 09:39 AM
Unfortunately, this is the course most RHEL derived projects. I just stick with RHEL, and use whatever repos might work (Rather than relying on RHEL subscriptions) for personal test boxes.

Of course, at home, I use Ubuntu, and am starting to recommend that to clients now. They have official support subscriptions, so it works in most cases.
W4GPL
05-13-2011, 09:46 AM
When it moved server locations recently, I was very tempted to go with RHEL, but I remained hopeful that Angry Johnny and his lap dog KB would get their act together. Now that Dag has given up on them, it's sort of the kiss of death, AFAIC. I'd be lost without the RPMFusion (and formally Dag) repo, the community owes Dag a lot.

I just read the thread that caused Dag to take his ball and go home.. He was called a troll. Such disrespect towards a major contributor is inconceivable.

The primary reason I haven't taken on Debian or even.. sigh.. Ubuntu.. is I was practically born a RedHat man. RedHat's stuff isn't 'better', but I could cite RedHat specific man pages in my sleep. There'd be a learning curve with anything else, albeit a small one. I just don't want to have to stop and think about things that I can currently do flawlessly every time.
KC2UGV
05-13-2011, 11:01 AM
Do you have a link to the ml thread? I'd be interested in reading it (I've not kept up with CentOS)...
W4GPL
05-13-2011, 11:16 AM
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-May/007482.html - It starts in this thread. You can follow it, there are a few thread breaks though.

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-May/thread.html - full thread listing for May.
n6hcm
05-16-2011, 04:33 AM
yes. this is a nightmare for me--i have a pile of centos systems at the lab ... scientific linux is our logical next place to go. we have no need for rhel6 yet, and the only system we expect to use this with in the near future is a large memory model system (1TB RAM) that i will host at UCSF.