It is going to be either Astaro or Untangle. Depending on what the clients needs are. Ipfire feels kludgey and ipcop isn’t really designed for modern hardware and is a bit too basic for my needs. Comixwall is a typical Debian distro..if you want to live in the cli go this route..:)
According to the Centos homepage:
The CentOS Development team had a routine meeting today with Lance Davis in attendance. During the meeting a majority of issues were resolved immediately and a working agreement was reached with deadlines for remaining unresolved issues. There should be no impact to any CentOS users going forward.
The CentOS project is now in control of the CentOS.org and CentOS.info domains and owns all trademarks, materials, and artwork in the CentOS distributions.
We look forward to working with Lance to quickly complete all the agreed upon issues.
More information will follow soon.
Last Update: August 1, 2009 04:34 UTC by Donavan Nelson
This is nice but it does not answer the questions they raised in public. This also does not tell me they are going to be more transparent which could lead to another similar issue in the future. Centos, What has actually been done to resolve these issues?
Right now I still cannot put my full trust in the long term stability or viability of this project.
I like this. It shows that nothing is sacred when it comes to security..:)
For the clients running centos I am going to be researching other alternatives. Right now no servers are in danger of being unable to update. I will keep everyone informed as to how this situation unfolds.
Read this site:
It turns out the CentOS project is under the control of one person and that person has decided to disappear..for over a year. All monies that got donated did not go to CentOS but to the founding individual. This type of thing can happen anywhere but this type of thing is what gives anti-open source folks tons of ammunition. They may have to rename the project or merge with another one. I will be watching developments as they unfold. I personally am now researching other distros to migrate to since I can no longer be assured of the stability or longevity of CentOS.
I have been following the mailing list as well you can find the mailing list entries here.
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the following was posted on the sidebar of the centos homepage:
Security issues with sudo « Mihai’s Weblog.
I have always thought Ubuntu’s way of locking out direct root access was nonsensical. It now turns out it worse than that..it’s Microsoft-ish.
There are so many out there it’s hard to sift through. I have narrowed things down to 4:
1. Ipfire
2. Astaro
3. Untangle
4. Comixwall
Depending on capabilities and budget those are the 4 ECC is going to be choosing from for the foreseeable future. This makes it easier for my clients to know what i am offering and makes it easier for me since i’m not suporting 10 different server packages. I intend on narrowing it down to 2 in the near future.
Now this is interesting. Comixwall looks like what i ahve been looking for. I have been wanting to find a UTM that takes what i had with ipcop/zerina/cop+/copfilter and have it integrated into one package…and be free. Astaro is very nice but it’s free only for home use. Untangle is nice but it’s feature set is compromised by their wanting to complete with astaro so the free content filter and free anti-spam are compromised in their effectiveness unless yiou go commerical. Comixwall is totally free and so far looks promising..more to come.
linux_timeline.png (PNG Image, 2888×2079 pixels).
I found this interesting…enjoy.
Startup Founders Turn Android into Desktop OS – PC World.
Now this is itneresting. Read on for full details.
