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CentOS now have sponsorship to pay two developers full time, and had their 6.3 clone out much more quickly. http://centosnow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/centos-proj

CentOS now have sponsorship to pay two developers full time, and had their 6.3 clone out much more quickly. http://centosnow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/centos-project-release-times.html http://centosnow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/centos-project-relea... That matches Scientific Linux in terms of full time paid packagers/QA &c I'm not sure how much paid development time PUIAS has but there is some as it is the system used at the host institutions. I imagine that the Oracle Linux team has plenty of extra people providing the paid support. What I find interesting is that you can't simply download an .iso, you have to create an account or run a dodgy script. Strange combination of free and corporate approaches.

wdaher 14y ago
You can download an ISO from any of these mirrors: https://wikis.oracle.com/display/oraclelinux/Downloading+Oracle+Linux https://wikis.oracle.com/display/oraclelinux/Downloading+Ora...
- keithpeter 14y ago
  I stand corrected, but why on earth not add a link to the main page or the landing page linked to in this HN post?
  - wdaher 14y ago
    An excellent question. Honestly, because the page was intended at people already running CentOS -- I thought people would be much more inclined to switch a system they already have than to reinstall a brand new one. Clearly I was mistaken :)
    - keithpeter 14y ago
      Would you expect those who tend servers to run a script that changes the update repositories and installs new packages as root on a production server without testing the operating system first? I take the point that the script and the reversion of the changes introduced by the script could be tested on a development box running CentOS. Disclaimer: I am not part of the target market for your product. Just a desktop RHEL clone user.
      - wdaher 14y ago
        > I take the point that the script and the reversion of the changes introduced by the script could be tested on a development box running CentOS. Yes, that was my thinking here. That you'd spin up a CentOS VM or run it on a test system, see if you were happy, and then you'd run it for a while. Once you were happy, you'd then run the script everywhere.

wdaher 14y ago

You can download an ISO from any of these mirrors: https://wikis.oracle.com/display/oraclelinux/Downloading+Oracle+Linux https://wikis.oracle.com/display/oraclelinux/Downloading+Ora...

keithpeter 14y ago
I stand corrected, but why on earth not add a link to the main page or the landing page linked to in this HN post?
- wdaher 14y ago
  An excellent question. Honestly, because the page was intended at people already running CentOS -- I thought people would be much more inclined to switch a system they already have than to reinstall a brand new one. Clearly I was mistaken :)
  - keithpeter 14y ago
    Would you expect those who tend servers to run a script that changes the update repositories and installs new packages as root on a production server without testing the operating system first? I take the point that the script and the reversion of the changes introduced by the script could be tested on a development box running CentOS. Disclaimer: I am not part of the target market for your product. Just a desktop RHEL clone user.
    - wdaher 14y ago
      > I take the point that the script and the reversion of the changes introduced by the script could be tested on a development box running CentOS. Yes, that was my thinking here. That you'd spin up a CentOS VM or run it on a test system, see if you were happy, and then you'd run it for a while. Once you were happy, you'd then run the script everywhere.