CIQ's live chat with the ProTech Show! Part 1

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have a question though the question is why now i understand the need to fill a gap i understand that centos left a big gap and having a new distribution to fill it was sorely needed but why did you personally choose to do it because you've already given the world centos you could have sat back and left it to someone else but you decided to roll up your sleeves and start all over again what was your motivation oh my goodness uh it's a great question there's there's a lot of kind of personal background uh kind of associated with it so when when we did centos i

think we did a lot of things right we we we nailed a bunch of things but i think there was some things that we didn't get quite so right and uh personally i always love kind of working in the operating system i've i've been interested in linux and interested in distributions of linux um since the mid-90s and that was always kind of my goal in terms of where i was going and what i was doing and and how to get there and so i always had a passion to this so created before doing centos i created chaos linux which is a community rpm based distribution

of linux and that kind of kicked out or spawned uh centos but as i said there were some things we did right and some things i think we could have done better and i had a lot of experience that i felt would be really um uh useful for this but but most importantly i really wanted to get back into the distribution uh i really wanted to to build this again uh and and take all of the things that i did right do that again and take all the things that i did wrong and try to fix them and uh so you could say you could

say there was a little bit of a chip on my shoulder as well with the announcement that something that i created was then um end of life and i'm saying it was end of life even though you know that's arguable because it changed it changed life it it um metamorphosized in a matter of speaking it's it's it's no longer what we set out to do and what we set out to do is to solve some critical problems and critical needs that a lot of people in the world and in the community had and uh and it's no longer doing that and so i gotta say