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james016
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/30 ... en_letter/ I hope this can be resolved. We use CentOS as our host operating system for our VMWare server at work.
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
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I always through that CentOS was backed by Red Hat? I was under the impression the Red Hat was their paid for enterprise system, Fedora was their stable open system and CentOS was their less stable, more featurefull open system...
I can't dissapear surely? Someone must have another repository of the code somewhere so the project can continue...?
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ShockWaffle
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Fedora is their unstable community / desktop edition. RHEL is their expensive, stable, supported server edition. CentOS (and White Box if that project still lives) are based on the source code Redhat publish for their RHEL product, but with the little red hat logos and other copyright materials removed.
If CentOS dissapears, there will be a minimal interruption to the service while the project is forked (I don't mean that as a rude pun) and re-launched as DentOS or Green Shoe Linux or something like that.
That's the point of open source; you can't really kill a project if the source code is open and other people are willing to keep it alive.
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Oh, please, please, PLEASE let them call the fork "Green shoe Linux"! 
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Nick
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Nick
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I just read an article on theregister.co.uk which pretty much announces that all is now well with the project, and that the project is going to live on. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/02/centos_alive/_________________
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Coref
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The 5.3 release of Centos was delayed cos one of the lead developers went on his honeymoon  If Centos goes under you could always look at Scientific Linux which is more or less the same as RHEL/Centos but with a few scientific packages + notably, XFS.
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