Seems like a great idea. While I am not affiliated with CentOS, I'd be interested in helping if help is needed.
Todd On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Scott Dowdle <dow...@montanalinux.org> wrote: > Greetings, > > I've used RHEL, CentOS and Fedora for many years... and as many of you on > this list may know... back in January, CentOS because a sponsored project of > Red Hat. For the upcoming CentOS 7 release they are going beyond just the > normal release that is an as-perfect-as-possible clone of RHEL. They have > this concept of variants... where Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are formed > around making a special purpose build of CentOS... a spin or remix if you > will. I don't know a lot about it yet but I think I have the basic concept > correct. > > Looking at the numbers on http://stats.openvz.org/ I see: > > Top host distros > ----------------- > CentOS 56,725 > Scientific 2,471 > RHEL 869 > Debian 576 > Fedora 111 > Ubuntu 82 > Gentoo 54 > openSUS 18 > ALT Linux 10 > Sabayon 6 > > and > > Top 10 CT distros > ------------------- > centos 245,468 > debian 106,350 > ubuntu 83,197 > OR 8,354 > gentoo 7,017 > pagoda 4,024 > scientific 3,604 > fedora 3,173 > seedunlimited 1,965 > > The popularity of CentOS as both an OpenVZ host and an OpenVZ container > surely has to do with the fact that the two stable branches of the OpenVZ > kernel are derived from RHEL kernels. > > Wouldn't be nice if there were a CentOS derivative that had the OpenVZ kernel > and utils pre-installed? I think so. > > While I have made CentOS remixes in the past just for my own personal use... > I have not had any official engagement with the CentOS community. I was > curious if there were some OpenVZ users out there who are already affiliated > with the CentOS Project and who might want to get together in an effort to > start a SIG and ultimately a CentOS 7 variant. Anyone? I guess if not, I > could make a personal goal of building a CentOS and/or Scientific Linux > 6-based remix that includes OpenVZ... as well as working on it after RHEL7 > and clones are released... and after such time the OpenVZ Project has > released a stable branch based on the RHEL7 kernel. > > I will acknowledge up front that some of the top CentOS devs / contributors > have historically been fairly nasty to OpenVZ users on the #centos IRC > channel. They generally did not want to help someone using a CentOS system > running under an OpenVZ kernel... but then again... they reputation is for > being obnoxious to many groups of people. :) I don't think we should let > that stop us. > > Comments, feedback, questions? > > I'll also post this to my personal blog as well as the OpenVZ blog. > > TYL, > -- > Scott Dowdle > 704 Church Street > Belgrade, MT 59714 > (406)388-0827 [home] > (406)994-3931 [work] > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openvz.org > https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
