[clue] CentOS new user experience.

Chris Fedde chris at fedde.us
Mon Dec 21 21:21:16 MST 2015


Sustaining CentOS lets RH continue to have a strong GPL argument while
retaining their market.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 4:46 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>
wrote:

> Romero, Gary wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, this was silly hard to find (seriously, it took me a while since
> > its really buried on a busy page): https://wiki.centos.org/Download
>
> Thanks all.  Glad it's not just me.  I would have made my comment to
> CentOS but there wasn't and
> obvious way to do that.  I considered filing a bug but that seemed to
> require an account and it
> wasn't certain that the bug tracker covers the web site.
>
> >
> > It used to be that the DVD ISO button took you directly to the mirrors
> > list where you could actually download the full ISO's. During a talk in
> > Fort Lauderdale a while back, a RHEL sales rep mentioned that RH had not
> > figured out exactly what they were going to do with CentOS other than to
> > keep paying the devs to build it in the short term. Based on the state
> > of the website, I'd guess that statement still stands.
>
> So RH is paying the CentOS devs?  How bizarre.  I'm sure the devs are
> happy to take the money but
> why would RH care?  I'd think CentOS would exist even if RH didn't fund it.
>
> Dave
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