\"Did everybody forget Bill Gates' 'If they are gonna pirate, I want them to pirate from us' bit?\" Slashdot blogger hairyfeet warned. \"Every one using Cent is NOT using Ubuntu; more importantly, they are learning the RH way of doing things. I have no doubt Red Hat will begin offering support contracts for CentOS, as well as an upgrade option. Better they learn RH than learn Debian.\"<\/p>\n
There's no doubt privacy is a highly pertinent goal for 2014, but partnership and collaboration are nothing to sneeze at, either. <\/p>\n
That's why the news out of North Carolina last week was so exciting. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"Red Hat and the CentOS Project today announced they are joining forces to build a new CentOS,\" the press release began, \"capable of driving forward development and adoption of next-generation open source technologies.\" <\/p>\n
Yes, that's right -- Linux heavyweight Red Hat and RHEL-based community distro CentOS are teaming up, leaving more than a few heads spinning -- on Slashdot and down at the Linux blogosphere's Broken Windows Lounge. <\/p>\n
'Godspeed the New Meta-Distro' <\/p>\n
\"I think it's a fantastic idea,\" consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack told Linux Girl. \"Not everyone wants the full service package of RHEL, but they definitely need security updates.\" <\/p>\n
Indeed, \"this kind of forces-joining is what I have dreamed for every GNU\/Linux distro family, as opposed to the 'I fork it because I can' policy,\" enthused Google+ blogger Gonzalo Velasco C. <\/p>\n
\"CentOS is a successful communitarian GNU\/Linux distribution, and everyone knows how much success Red Hat has as an enterprise, even though they have the well-developed community branch Fedora,\" Gonzalo Velasco C. pointed out. <\/p>\n
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