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CentOS 6.0 released

Posted Jul 12, 2011 10:17 UTC (Tue) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: CentOS 6.0 released by kragilkragil2
Parent article: CentOS 6.0 released

I've not heard of Clear Foundation's ClearOS before -- looks interesting, but from their website it looks like they're interested in building on top of RHEL, not just providing a rebuild. And they skipped several releases (5.3, 5.4, 6.0) ...

Would be nice if there's a single rebuild effort that different groups can then add to for their own needs; might be easier to do this on top of a SciLi because that project is clearly not for-profit.

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CentOS 6.0 released

Posted Jul 12, 2011 12:02 UTC (Tue) by kragilkragil2 (guest, #76172) [Link]

Well, ClearOS Core is the RHEL rebuild/ CentOS alternative. They decided to build their own RHEL clone, because CentOS 6 took too long. That is why there is no 6.0 or below.
IMO the best thing that could happen is that they all build a common core and that CentOS would really become a community, more like Debian, and a meritocracy.

CentOS 6.0 released

Posted Jul 15, 2011 14:06 UTC (Fri) by jeremiah (subscriber, #1221) [Link]

Just as an FYI, Scientific Linux is out with their 6.1 release candidate. So any day now. But as to your suggestion about everyone building a common core. I saw that idea passed around on the SL mailing list a couple of weeks ago. Don't remember ClearOS being mentioned, but I do remember Oracle being a part of the discussion. So I think folks are trying to build a community. We'll just have to wait and see what happens I guess.