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On Monday 14 April 2014 19:00:47 David Crick wrote:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/592723/
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> "So the goal for CentOS is to create a next-generation platform that
> is supported for a longer period of time than Fedora is. Ten years
> would be good, but most people just want something longer than 13
> months, he said, and *2–3 YEARS SEEMED TO BE A SWEET SPOT*."
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> (emphasis added by me).
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> Pertinent question: are SL users "most people" ?
Main-line CentOS would be positioned to compete with Ubuntu for desktop
mindshare (and thus developer mindshare), and not really be in the server
space. That is a critical area of failing competition for RedHat (no Fedora/RH
Steam, for example). It also castrates the server-farm threat posed by CentOS.
Smart move by RedHat.
Of course, if SL gets its sources through CentOS not RH directly then this
could be a difficult move for downstream projects like SL (after all, this is
"free as in gutter water"). I could easily imagine that SL might become the
"LTS" CentOS spin or something similar (note that this is pure conjecture --
don't let that set the rumor-bugs off).
Anyway, there is too little concrete information to speculate much more than
business interest. I feel as certain that the SL team will navigate this new
terrain wisely as I am certain that neither RedHat nor CentOS wants to see SL
be stranded.
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