Tao Linux Retirement Plans [LWN.net]

Tao Linux was one of those projects that aimed to provide a free Linux distribution from the sources used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Founder and lead developer David L. Parsley announced that he no longer has time for Tao development.

Over the last few weeks, I've consulted with other Tao developers and a number of Tao users, as well as several CentOS developers, with whom I've worked closely. Based on feedback, suggestions, and general agreement of all concerned, I'm going with the following plan:

Right now, I'm making the public announcement of my retirement, and making 'switch' yum repositories available that will convert a Tao box to a CentOS box.
For several months, I will continue to release security updates (and little else), allowing users time to either switch to CentOS or make other arrangements of their own.

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