On Monday 14 April 2014 19:00:47 David Crick wrote: > http://lwn.net/Articles/592723/ > > "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*." > > (emphasis added by me). > > 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.