Rackspace is not a typical leecher commercial vendor feeding off the CentOS pool. At least in the Managed Linux hosting segment it's 99% RHEL with other OS's installed as a one-off. Slicehost and Rackspace Cloud do offer CentOS as an option among others distros, but labeling Rackspace as a company that feeds off of the Cent OS pool is misinformed at best. Full disclosure: I do work at Rackspace as a Linux Admin, but am not speaking on behalf of the company in any way. My views are my own. -- Kevin Lord > On 11/25/2009 11:45 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > >>* With a big fat warning sign? Have you already tested things in there?*>* *>* There are a number of #centos regulars that are using the*>* IUS packages and I've yet to hear of any complaints with*>* them.* > Thats just noise. There are a lot of people who do source builds as > well, and we strongly discourage people from using that process. > > My question is - why did they not consider actually doing this with the > project or even talking to anyone within the communities. > > Rackspace are the typical leecher commercial vendors feeding off the > CentOS pool, with little or not desire to even consider contributing any > level of effort or time back into the project. To me, thats a big deal. > > I'm voting for not listing them on the wiki. Also, what is it that the > IUS repo does that isnt available on the other regular > non-commercially-backed repositories ? > > -- > Karanbir Singh > London, UK | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh > ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20091130/9261938e/attachment.html
