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There is no central organization that is writing checks for the work in CentOS; this is being done either by volunteers, or by organizations which have loosely-
by chasil 7y ago
There is no central organization that is writing checks for the work in CentOS; this is being done either by volunteers, or by organizations which have loosely-aligned goals.
Oracle completed and announced their clone of Red Hat 8 on July 18th:
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/announcing-the-release-of-oracle-linux-8 https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/announcing-the-release-of-ora...
Oracle is generally faster than CentOS in reissuing upstream changes, and perhaps CentOS as a project was able to take some direction from the results of Oracle's speed and focus.
- tw04 7y ago>There is no central organization that is writing checks for the work in CentOS What are you talking about? Redhat acquired the CentOS project and hired the developers as full time employees dedicated to working on CentOS. There is absolutely an organization behind it and it is 100% not made up entirely of volunteers. https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-Janu...
- chasil 7y agoI was not aware of that. Thank you for the information. In that case, I have no idea why there is an extensive delay.