While we haven't quite ironed out the details, I am presuming this: -This would basically be what CentOS would be like if it had a community model more like ours. -Most likely, we will strive to be 100% compatible with RHEL. -There are already enough addon repositories (EPEL, Repoforge, etc), we don't need another one. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Shawn Thompson wrote: > >> Okay, this is a little important, so read carefully: >> >> Andrew Cutler (a person I noticed on Twitter, I had emailed, and >> surprisingly responded) has proposed the formation of a community >> consortium to help develop a common "meta-distribution" for >> community-based EL products, which could most likely also serve as a >> distribution of its own. > > Sorry, I don't quite follow. > This would be a replacement/alternative/rival to CentOS/the Yale > equivalent/SL etc, rather than another epel/rpmforge/dag > ie a base repo or an addon repo ? Or something of both ? > > -- > Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge > [log in to unmask] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna >