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  <updated>2014-04-03T15:54:39Z</updated>
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    <title>How about an OpenVZ CentOS Variant?</title>
    <published>2014-04-03T15:54:39Z</published>
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    <content type="html">I've used RHEL, CentOS and Fedora for many years... and as many of you already know... back in January, CentOS became 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 &lt;a href="https://www.centos.org/variants/" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;variants&lt;/a&gt;... where Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are formed around making special purpose builds of CentOS... spins or remixs if you will.  I don't know a lot about it yet but I think I have the basic concept correct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking at the numbers on &lt;a href="http://stats.openvz.org/" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;stats.openvz.org&lt;/a&gt; I see:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Top  host   distros&lt;br /&gt;-------------------&lt;br /&gt;CentOS	     56,725&lt;br /&gt;Scientific    2,471&lt;br /&gt;RHEL	        869&lt;br /&gt;Debian	        576&lt;br /&gt;Fedora	        111&lt;br /&gt;Ubuntu	         82&lt;br /&gt;Gentoo	         54&lt;br /&gt;openSUS          18&lt;br /&gt;ALT Linux        10&lt;br /&gt;Sabayon	          6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Top 10  CT  distros&lt;br /&gt;-------------------&lt;br /&gt;centos	    245,468&lt;br /&gt;debian	    106,350&lt;br /&gt;ubuntu	     83,197&lt;br /&gt;OR	      8,354&lt;br /&gt;gentoo	      7,017&lt;br /&gt;pagoda	      4,024&lt;br /&gt;scientific    3,604&lt;br /&gt;fedora	      3,173&lt;br /&gt;seedunlimited 1,965&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although reporting is optional, 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wouldn't be nice if there were a CentOS variant that has the OpenVZ kernel and utils pre-installed?  I think so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 an OpenVZ 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will acknowledge up front that some of the top CentOS devs / contributors have historically been fairly nasty to OpenVZ users on the &lt;a href='https://www.livejournal.com/rsearch/?tags=%23centos'&gt;#centos&lt;/a&gt; IRC channel.  They generally did not want to help someone using a CentOS system running under an OpenVZ kernel... but then again... their reputation is for being obnoxious to many groups of people. :)  I don't think we should let that stop us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comments, feedback, questions?</content>
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