LWN: Comments on "Send in the clone: Scientific Linux 6.1 approaches"

Send in the clone: Scientific Linux 6.1 approaches

kragil — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:38:16 +0000

With CentOS being on a steady (release related) decline I wish most people would just switch to SL 6 and empower that community... Seems to have much more life left in it.

Send in the clone: Scientific Linux 6.1 approaches

Hausvib6 — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:44:20 +0000

Umm, perhaps because "spin" is also a terminology in physics?

Really nice to see that an alternate derivative (or perhaps just rebranding -- still a derivative) of RHEL has risen. SL and CentOS are gateway to taste the bliss of enterprise-grade GNU/Linux distro.

Send in the clone: Scientific Linux 6.1 approaches

Baylink — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:26:25 +0000

The SL people *really* want to reconsider their choice of terminology.

"Site" is already *so* overloaded that the amount of increase in cognitive load that it will impose on their audiences may be the straw.

Everyone else seems to be using "spin" for this particular object (a customized installable version of a distribution); does anyone know whether there's some specific reason they aren't?