CentOS was nearly dead when RH acquired it
CentOS was nearly dead when RH acquired it
Posted Jun 25, 2023 12:46 UTC (Sun) by pixdrift (guest, #120838)In reply to: CentOS was nearly dead when RH acquired it by pizza
Parent article: Kuhn: A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
Around CentOS 6.0 and 6.1 releases there was definitely trouble, but that was two and a half years prior (2011) to Red Hat getting involved. My memory was update and errata publication was fairly consistent after this time.
CentOS 7.0 released 27 days after RHEL 7.0 shortly after the Red Hat announcement and I believe it still used the existing CentOS build process.
There was a major delay was with CentOS 8.0 which was post Red Hat announcement, and released 140 days after RHEL 8.0.
(CentOS wikipedia pages lists all the dates)
Something else relevant that was happening around this time (2012) was Oracle announcing that they would provide all errata and updates for Oracle Linux on their public yum repo.