On 5/22/14, 6:14 PM, Andrew Gilmore wrote:
I don't get it. Reading this line from the FAQ
"No, CentOS releases will follow shortly after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux source. "
leads me to believe that CentOS will be largely usable as it has been, as a free, completely compatible version of RHEL. Yes, with challenges in errata availability, but that's the use case.

Suggesting that CentOS is going to be *upstream* of RHEL suggests several other valuable, but completely different, uses. I'm not sure this is a great move, as I see bigger challenges coming from the free and polished desktop side (*cough* Ubuntu).

https://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/#_centos_and_variants

The underlying perception is that historically RHEL6 == CentOS6. In the future, as CentOS develops into it's own community, the two will diverge measurably (which is a good thing for the community, IMO!). This allows Fedora to track closer to upstream, CentOS to serve special development platform needs, RHEL to serve enterprise. We may encounter a situation akin to Fedora 30, CentOS 10, RHEL 7... all on different release cycles, all with different spins and purposes.



RHEL 7 should be very interesting.
Download & play with the release candidate!
https://access.redhat.com/site/products/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/Get-Beta

I'd wager you're getting at the evolution of the community, though. And you're right. It'll be interesting.