FYI: Centos joins RedHat

[Digimer]

On 07/01/14 08:47 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org
> <mailto:mattdm at fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
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>     On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 03:26:03PM -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
>      > From the CENTOS user mailing list
>      > With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining
>     the Red
>      > Hat family. The CentOS Project ( http://www.centos.org ) is joining
>      > forces with Red Hat. Working as part of the Open Source and Standards
>      > team ( http://community.redhat.com/ ) to foster rapid innovation
>      > beyond the platform into the next generation of emerging
>     technologies.
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>     Our own Fedora Project Leader Robyn Bergeron has a blog post on
>     this, with
>     some commentary on how Fedora fits in:
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>     http://wordshack.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/centos-welcome/
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>     --
>     Matthew Miller    --   Fedora Project    --
>       <mattdm at fedoraproject.org <mailto:mattdm at fedoraproject.org>>
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> I wonder how / if this is going to affect us.

I doubt it will.

The closest connection would be EPEL, but that's tenuous and not 
changing from before.

Fedora and CentOS serve very different purposes in the Red Hat 
ecosystem. I expect any changes, if any at all, to be very symbiotic.

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