CentOS 6.0 released [LWN.net]

CentOS 6.0 released

Posted Jul 11, 2011 16:57 UTC (Mon) by kragilkragil2 (guest, #76172)
Parent article: CentOS 6.0 released

Pretty late, but still cool that they are not dead.

SciLi and the Clear foundation are in final testing stages for 6.1 AFAIK. Maybe they could all join forces, or at least have some kind of cooperation. They all just rebuild RHEL, there have to be synerys somewhere.

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CentOS 6.0 released

Posted Jul 12, 2011 10:17 UTC (Tue) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] (2 responses)

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.

CentOS 6.0 released

Posted Jul 12, 2011 12:02 UTC (Tue) by kragilkragil2 (guest, #76172) [Link] (1 responses)

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.