Re: [PLUG] FW: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning

[Bob Schwier <schwepes@netaxs.com>]

These guys involved with certain European anarchist programers?
Chaos seems to show up in the titles of European web sites such as out
of Czechoslovakia.
bs


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Magnus wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 08:42  AM, Kam Salisbury wrote:
> 
> > The end of an era?
> 
> My boss wrote me a panicked email when he got that.  Conveniently, RH 
> neglected to mention the Fedora option.  We're likely to be skipping 
> it.  I'm personally getting involved with http://www.caosity.org and 
> lobbying to get my employer to let me spend time on the clock and use 
> company-owned build boxes to further this project.
> 
> The web site is pretty sparse.  I'll give you the short version.
> 
> cAos has two distributions, EL (Enterprise Linux) and GP (General 
> Purpose).  EL is basically not much more than RHEL minus the 
> trademarked bits.  GP builds off of EL and extends EL.
> 
> cAos 1 is built off of RHAS 2.1.  cAos 2 is built off of RHEL 3.  Both 
> cAos1gp and cAos2el are likely to be released simultaneously this month.
> 
> The project is community based with broad support.  It has a social 
> contract much like Debian.  But architecturally it is more like Red Hat.
> 
> Most of the real meat of the project takes place in the mailing lists 
> and the IRC channel.  The web site makes this project look a lot less 
> active than it really is.
> 
> --Magnus
> 
> 

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