CentOS - Mar 2014 - about new Centos SIG distro releases

Hello,

Kinda confused, will  CentOS new SIGs: CentOS Storage, CentOS Cloud, and 
CentOS Virtualization, CentOS Core,etc  be a developmental path to future
RHEL releases, or will they continue be an exact clone of RHEL, like 
Centos currently is?


http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-reveals-centos-plans-7000027812/

Initial reaction: Crap!

One of the best things about CentOS, in my opinion, was not having to deal
with all the different RHEL builds/releases/whatever they called them, and
just having ONE distribution.

So much for that.

It didn't take long for Red Hat to get their mitts all over CentOS, huh?




On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Edward M <edwardunix at live.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Kinda confused, will  CentOS new SIGs: CentOS Storage, CentOS Cloud, and
> CentOS Virtualization, CentOS Core,etc  be a developmental path to future
> RHEL releases, or will they continue be an exact clone of RHEL, like
> Centos currently is?
>
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-reveals-centos-plans-7000027812/
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On 03/31/2014 04:56 AM, Edward M wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Kinda confused, will  CentOS new SIGs: CentOS Storage, CentOS Cloud, and 
> CentOS Virtualization, CentOS Core,etc  be a developmental path to future
> RHEL releases, or will they continue be an exact clone of RHEL, like 
> Centos currently is?
The Core SIG produces the same CentOS everyone knows and loves.

The other sigs allow groups of like-minded community members to take
CentOS, and modify it in an officially recognized manner to suit their
needs. It also allows projects a method to distribute their applications
using CentOS as the platform.


Examples: adding xen support, distributing cloud-init enabled images, or
building in glusterfs support.

These are community driven efforts, and you don't have to use them if
you don't want to.


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