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Side topic: I see references everywhere (including this article) that the "co-founder of CentOS started a new distribution: Rocky Linux". I am not familiar wi

Side topic: I see references everywhere (including this article) that the "co-founder of CentOS started a new distribution: Rocky Linux". I am not familiar with the history of CentOS, so I tried to understand who Gregory Kurtzer is, and to be honest, I am still not quite sure what he did for CentOS. My understanding is that he helped start the project and more or less helped it grow during the first 2 years, then was somehow removed from the leading board? https://blog.centos.org/2019/03/greg-kurtzer-centos-founder/ https://blog.centos.org/2019/03/greg-kurtzer-centos-founder/ This story is very unclear to me. It seems McGaugh started CentOS, and then handed it over to "someone in the UK" instead of Gregory Kurtzer. https://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/Gregory_Kurtzer_discusses_plans_for_Rocky_Linux_with_Wikinews_as_Red_Hat_announces_moving_focus_away_from_CentOS https://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/Gregory_Kurtzer_discusses_pla... The second article make it seem like McGaugh was some kind of employee of Kurtzer: > One of our developers, Rocky McGaugh, quickly rebuilt the sources in RHEL to give us a stable foundation. That was the beginning of CentOS I really don't want to start a flame war here, just curious of understanding who this guy is really.

physicsguy 6y ago
Greg Kurtzer has done a lot of other stuff since leaving CentOS though, mostly in the HPC sphere. He worked at Lawrence Berkeley lab and started Warewulf for cluster admin. He started Singularity (basically Docker for HPC).
toyg 6y ago
I mean, it's on wikipedia: "Prior to becoming known under its current name, CentOS originated as a build of CAOS Linux, which was started by Gregory Kurtzer." There are a bunch of items on Distrowatch about caos, going all the way back to 2004, like https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02134 https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02134 that qualifies him as "the leader of cAos Foundation of cAos and CentOS fame". It seems clear from a quick googling that Greg started the project; once Rocky McGough entered the picture, Greg handed him the technical reins while he "continued to manage the project, community, and governance side of things", until he moved on. (Side note: Distrowatch is one of the unsung pillars of the Linux ecosystem. For all its drawbacks, it has run for almost 20 years, and still works fine as a quick way to survey the field of Linux distributions.)

physicsguy 6y ago

Greg Kurtzer has done a lot of other stuff since leaving CentOS though, mostly in the HPC sphere. He worked at Lawrence Berkeley lab and started Warewulf for cluster admin. He started Singularity (basically Docker for HPC).

toyg 6y ago

I mean, it's on wikipedia: "Prior to becoming known under its current name, CentOS originated as a build of CAOS Linux, which was started by Gregory Kurtzer." There are a bunch of items on Distrowatch about caos, going all the way back to 2004, like https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02134 https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02134 that qualifies him as "the leader of cAos Foundation of cAos and CentOS fame". It seems clear from a quick googling that Greg started the project; once Rocky McGough entered the picture, Greg handed him the technical reins while he "continued to manage the project, community, and governance side of things", until he moved on. (Side note: Distrowatch is one of the unsung pillars of the Linux ecosystem. For all its drawbacks, it has run for almost 20 years, and still works fine as a quick way to survey the field of Linux distributions.)