[shard]

Where are the details!?! I want to know why he went AWOL for so long, and what kind of agreements were reached regarding the centos funds and domain. =P

[tsally]

I'd like to know why he went missing for so long as well, but it's hardly our business now is it? ;)

[mapleoin]

this isn't a soap opera. It's their business, even if they decided to make part of the thing public.

[rdtsc]

And my business is my business. We used to use CentOS and now we switched to another open build of RHEL.

I have nothing against them, they all seem to be great guys, I would have a beer with them. But the image of the project as a whole has suffered, and because of a lack of perceived stability and reliability we decided to switch.

[Elepsis]

If you don't mind sharing, what did you switch to?

[rdtsc]

Scientific Linux (http://www.scientificlinux.org/), it's maintained by Fermilab and CERN.

[ErrantX]

that's the risk you take for using a community (ish) / volunteer developed OS.

I always recommend Fedora - because they have Red Hat upstream so it's enterprisey but still the same sort of community :)

[rdtsc]

I hear you. I would rather choose Ubuntu, but we have to be compatible with RHEL since we have to ship our product on it. We need all the dev boxes running something binary and library-level compatible with it, and then it is easier to have all our servers on same architecture as well.

[mapleoin]

Red Hat is actually downstream from Fedora. Red Hat takes a Fedora release once every two years and makes it into a RHEL.

[ErrantX]

yeh sorry I realised this after posting. thanks for the correction (I think my point still stands, I dont know).