[clue] CentOS new user experience.

David L. Willson DLWillson at TheGeek.NU
Mon Dec 21 21:16:52 MST 2015


I believe everything RedHat makes, including RHEL, is free software (GPL). 

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This is a good time for a r3VOLution. 

----- Original Message -----

> 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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