Red Hat bought out CentOS. Supposedly, they’ll keep releasing CentOS, but I don’t know whether the quality will be the same.
Fortunately, CentOS isn’t the only game in town. Scientific Linux, which is developed by leading scientific laboratories, is virtually identical to CentOS. I use it at work on most of our servers and it does just fine.
Sorry, fell asleep at the swwirch (literally... was playing music online and fell asleep while doing it)... kept hearing strange noise while asleep... (headphones near my sleeping head).. You have a link for “Scientific”? First I’ve heard of it. could Google it, but real weary of using Google :p
I spoke with Red Hat about it last week.
The plan is that Fedora is the community experimental product to release brand new versions, work out the kinks, go bleeding edge, etc. CentOS is going to be used as a staging platform, if you will, for RHEL. Not quite as bleeding edge as Fedora, but still experimenting with some new features for RHEL. RHEL is the rock-solid stable product meant for production use in business where uptime is required.
So picture CentOS as the product between Fedora and RHEL, and it still will not be officially supported by RH, like Fedora is not supported by Red Hat.