There's a nice little update on the front page of http://www.centos.org/ clarifying the situation a bit. Here's the relevant text from the sidebar:

"Facts Regarding CentOS and the Open Letter to Lance Davis # CentOS is not dead or going away. The signers of the Open Letter are fully committed to continue the CentOS Project. Updates and new releases will continue.

# The issues raised in the Open Letter have been raised privately literally for years and a voluntary resolution had been hoped for and worked toward. But progress requires follow through. We have tried contacting Lance in private for a long period of time before this Open Letter. While we received promises, there was no real response or follow through from him on promises made. We are sure he is not dead, on vacation, or sick. Once we all decided there was no movement in the matter we created the Open Letter. This is not something that appeared just recently.

# We would really like to continue the project using the centos.org domain. That is one of the reasons for the Open Letter. But the developers will move to another domain if there is no other option. Protective backups are in place; hot machines exist to allow for a cutover with a simple one time installation of one RPM package. We continue to refine our plans if this might be the case, to make the transition as smooth as possible.

# We thank the people who have stepped forward and want to donate to the CentOS project to hold off for now until issues surrounding the centos.org domain and donation policy are resolved. Selected donations will be privately solicited by the signers of the Open Letter on some transition matters. We will post general instructions on how you can help the project as matters become resolved.

# The CentOS project is run completely by volunteers and we are aware that this requires a different management style. We have been and continue to work to prevent issues like these from occurring in the future. We will continue this effort in the future, but the matters mentioned in the Open Letter prevent us from moving forward at this moment, as they need to be resolved first.

Last Update: July 30, 2009 20:45 UTC by Donavan "

I believe Oracle Enterprise Linux is based on RHEL in a way similar to CentOS. I'm curious what the problem with this distribution is other than the support is not free?

Hmm... My brother owned both a '72 'Cuda and a '70 Challenger. I used to drive the 'Cuda around because my brother's back was so bad it hurt him to drive in it. Anyway, they had wonderful interiors; good materials, wind-down rear quarter windows, nice stitching, back seat wide enough to lie down on at the drive-in. We also had a 1975 Dodge Colt (Mitsubishi) which was styled in the image of the Challenger/Cuda, especially the interior. Nice. I've seen the prototype pictures of the new Challenger and it had a very slick looking dash, BUT the production dash/interior I've seen looks incredibly cheap and lifted from a lower-end 300. Did they finally change this for 2010? On the outside the car looks great (maybe a bit tall) but I found the interior just killed it for me. From what I've seen of the Camaro, I can't complain. I really liked the 1st gen Camaro/Firebird and this does a pretty good job of recreating that muscular look... even in yellow.

I saw one last night! I was driving down the road and this thing was just sitting in a driveway with the lights on 'looking' at us as we went by. I had to call my 10 year old son's attention away from his Nintendo DS (playing Transformers Autobots of course). "Hey, It's Bumble Bee!" I couldn't tell if it had the logo or not... or Ms. Fox inside. The car looked very nice though, and they build them not far from where I live (Just outside of Toronto).

When I first read "OpenStreetMap Sends UK Volunteer Mapper To Antigua" I thought it meant that a software bug led some poor shlub on a wild goose chase from the UK to a destination address in Antigua. Like, you should look up every once in a while while following those turn-by-turn directions.

"Bake the hall in the candle of her brain". from The (muppet) Frog Prince http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068613/

Chicago?

I have my WMPro 6.1 HTC Touch fairly highly customised with a different start menu, browser, dialer, Cisco VPN, MS Office Communicator, etc. I do find that it is a bit sluggish and yes, every few days I need to soft-reset it (there are some apps which will force this if they are left running in the background like TCPMP). On the whole I love it as it can do practically ANYTHING I can imagine a tiny computer could do. I can access my office computer desktop, online streaming multimedia, read almost any book, play games. My wife has the identical device without almost no customisations and I think it's been soft-reset maybe twice in six months. And we got these for $0 when we renewed our cell contract (unlimited internet usage) for three years. It's not perfect, but it suits me very well.

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