Hi Jarek and All, My silence since my e-mail wasn't because I don't care about this subject, it was because I needed to get work done. As was pointed out several times, I've thought about a merger or utilizing CentOS, several times, some more seriously than other. Connie is on their development list and helps them whenever she can. Several CentOS developers are on this list, and they've helped up several times. During this week, since Jarek sent the initial e-mail till I sent my "Troy's Opinion" e-mail, I had spent most of my time researching ways of merging. But I found that this was getting in the say of doing anything. So after a good nights sleep, after weighing everything everything, I made my decision. This doesn't mean we can't discuss ways of getting a scientific repository into CentOS. Or discuss various packages and repositories that CentOS has into S.L.. Or even discuss how we could merge with CentOS? Or if we should merge? It meant exactly what I said. I want to do SL5 just like we had planned. I've still got alot of work to do. Connie and others have alot of work to do. I might have offended some people with my answer. I apologize for that. But I just had to get it written and back to work. I do not feel that anyone offended me, I really don't. I think we have a wonderful collection of developers, and users. As a side note. We actually have had much more contact with CentOS because of this discussion. Thanks Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________