CentOS Red Hat: continue without charge

Red Hat and CentOS announced on the official website today that CentOS core team and project will join Red Hat, while CentOS also launched a new site (http://www.centos.org)

The new plan will be managed by the new CentOS Management Board. The initial Board of Directors was composed of the following core team members of the existing CentOS:

-- RalphAngenent

-- TruHyunh

-- JohnnyHughesJR

-- JimPerrin

-- KaranbirSingh

New members are also included:

-- FabianArrotin, nominated by the community board of directors

-- CarlTrieloff, KarstenWade, andMikeMcLean Red Hat nominated

Working principles of the Board of Directors: openness, openness, and inclusiveness. Http://www.centos.org/about/governance/

After CentOS is added to the red hat, it remains unchanged:

1. CentOS continues to be free of charge

2. Keep the content-driven network center unchanged

3. Fixed Bug, Issue, and emergency handling policies

4. RedHatEnterpriseLinux and CentOS firewalls still exist.

The changes are:

1. We work for Redhat, not RHEL.

2. Red Hat sponsors the construction system and initial content delivery resources

3. Some development resources, including source code, will be easier to obtain.

4. Avoiding the original and Red Hat Legal Issues

This news has been published on the official CentOS and RedHat websites:

Http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html

Http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/1/red-hat-and-centos-join-forces

CentOS (communitypoliciseoperatingsystem) is one of the Linux releases. It is compiled from the source code released by RedHatEnterpriseLinux according to open source code regulations. Because of the same source code, some servers that require high stability use CentOS instead of the commercial version of RedHatEnterpriseLinux. The difference between the two lies in that CentOS does not contain closed source code software.

After CentOS joins RedHat, the Red Hat Linux system product line is as follows:

• RedHatEnterpriseLinux: enterprise-level operating systems for commercial development and deployment:

• CentOS: a community-driven enterprise-level Operating System

• Fedora: a community-driven desktop operating system

The CentOS team said in the statement that the CentOS project will also become part of the Red Hat and will work with the Fedora and RHEL ecosystems to further accelerate community development and platform innovation based on the stated objectives.

After CentOS joins red hat, the project will be supervised by the new CentOS board of directors, and the board of directors will also follow the public, open, and inclusive principles to manage CentOS. Initial board members include:

• Existing CentOS core team members: RalphAngenent, TruHyunh, JohnnyHughesJR, JimPerrin, and KaranbirSingh

• Community nomination: FabianArrotin

• Red Hat nominations: CarlTrieloff, KarstenWade, and MikeMcLean

The CentOS team said that after joining the RedHat, the following things will still follow the previous established routes:

• The CentOSLinux platform remains unchanged. The processes and methods built on the platform will become more open, inclusive, and transparent.

• The core driving CentOS success-sponsor-driven content-remains unchanged.

• Bug, issue, and event handling processes remain unchanged. There are multiple opportunities for community members to participate in various stages of the process.

• The relationship between CentOS and RHEL remains unchanged, that is, the contribution of community members and contributors to CentOS is independent from RHEL, and CentOS still uses RHEL as the upstream.

But there are also some key points that will change:

• CentOS currently works for Redhat, but not for RHEL, which should have no effect on the past and present work of CentOS, but will promote it.

• Red Hat provides CentOS with some construction systems and initial content delivery resources. It is determined how to use and when to use CentOS.

• Source code in some platforms, plug-ins, or parallel stacks (such as Xen4CentOS) will become easier to use. The Board also hopes to develop a unified plan that allows internal groups in the CentOS ecosystem to be combined into SpecialInterestGroup (SIG ), and build an officially recognized CentOS variant (http://www.centos.org/variants/) on current resources)

• Since CentOS now works with RedHat's legal team, some constrained jobs will stop.

CentOS said these changes will be carried out in an inclusive and community-promoting manner and are reflected in the centos-devel email list. The CentOS Team encourages everyone to participate.