Jaroslaw Polok wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
>
Perhaps not a relevant contribution, but having been at FOSDEM in 
Brussels over the weekend I am disappointed that I didn't take in more 
of the CentOS/Fedora track. I went to the Intro to CentOS and
to Alisdair Kergon's excellent talk on LVM futures.
Missed Dag Wieer's session also.
I can say that CentOS and Fedora people seemed to get along very well 
manning the information stand.

I know Karanbir Singh from the team, and also Lance Davis if you need 
some introductions.



I cannot speak officially for Streamline - I stress this is a personal 
contribution. I would be disappointed if Scientific Linux were to be 
discontinued.

It is always good to have a rich set of choices if free software,
with different slants. Look at the KDE/Gnome desktops - both continue to 
flourish.
I'm glad that I'm able to work for a company which installs and supports 
Scientific Linux when requested by customers.
I had hoped the HPC community  could have a scientifically "branded" 
distro on which to base technical computing, ie. you might hope that 
vendors of  commercial packages could see the light and certify their 
packages on SL.


Remember the Pine saga. Pine was ditched by all the main distros, yet 
had a big following in HEP.
Your point about having an 'extras' repository with HEP specific 
packages, e.g Cernlibs, pine etc. would take care of that of course.

The only other thing I would think about is future directions.
Are you certain that the CentOS folks will put in any changes or patches 
which you need, if they are going after a different market?

Sorry to take up so much space. You get out of something what you put 
in, and as I have only been able to put in a bit of support and 
encouragement on the mailing list when I can fit it in, I don't have 
much say.

As you say, there must be a huge support workload on you, and many 
issues must arise which aren't within your strict job description.




John Hearns