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CentOS Administrator Reappears

Posted by Soulskill on from the bet-he-was-hiking-in-the-appalachian-trail dept.

str8edge sends word that Lance Davis, the CentOS project administrator who had mysteriously gone absent, has now returned and is working with the development team to get things back on track. From their announcement: "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."

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  1. Appalachian Trail by yoghurt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hiking that Appalachian trail can be tricky. I hear it goes all the way to Argentina.

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    1. Re:Appalachian Trail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      2. Kidnapped by space aliens; managed to escape when they neglected to secure the Dilithium Crystal Hatch.

      3. My grandmother died. No, not the one that died six months ago, or the one that died a year before that; this was my *biological* grandmother.

      4. Didn't realize the batteries on my beeper died.

      5. Met an old classmate from Yale, who gave me GHB and tried to induct me into the Skulls organization. Managed to escape by commandeering a single shell and out-rowing their eight-man shell.

      6. Just came back from the Tour de France; found it tough to compete when you refuse doping.

      7. Dog ate the Post-It notes.

      8. Just came back from central Africa, where I was building makeshift shelters and administering medical supplies in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. How was the last couple weeks for y'all?

  2. Did he... by jsse · · Score: 5, Funny

    reappear in front of the team one day, with bloodstain and mud all over his body, and yelled "I'm single, AGAIN!".

  3. I needed something to cheer me up by Linker3000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good news.

    Here I am in my sickbed writing rsync scripts for cross-site backups between CentOS-based servers, and seeing the headline made me smile, in-between fits of coughing.

    If by some amazing chance Karanbir Singh see this - I promise to rack up the dual Itanium server for IA64 testing and dev as soon as I get back to work and clean up a few other outstanding issues.

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    1. Re:I needed something to cheer me up by Linker3000 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ha - thanks for that. I'll live!!

      Signed off at the moment so lots of time to 'do stuff' at home.

      Two other 'urgent' projects crashed my plans for the Dell server but I'll let you know when I get back on track.

      Glad to see things seem to be moving in the right direction for you and the rest of the core team.

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  4. Re:More likely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Me neither! My mission critical servers are too important to trust to open source. I am switching everything to Windows.

  5. Re:Two weeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Two weeks is also the time it takes for the CIA to fully grow a clone, according to some conspiracy theorists.

  6. Re:Hate to break it to you... by JCCyC · · Score: 1, Funny

    .. but the Appalachain trail jokes arent funny. The first one wasn't even remotely funny, and the two dozen that followed it in the last post about this guy were annoyingly lame.

    It's only unfunny for Republicans. For sane people, it's still funny as fuck.

  7. Re:Two weeks by GaryOlson · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think the CentOS revenue sources or computing facilities are significant enough to finance a small CIA democracy promotional action.

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  8. Re:More likely by FreakyGreenLeaky · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally, on a personal note, I would like to ask yttrstein why he feels compelled to burden the rest of us with his un-informed opinions on this topic. He could have easily researched the issue, in about 5 or 10 minutes, and perhaps contributed something worth reading.

    He's probably 12 years old or 45 and lives in his mom's basement. His mindless gurgle resulted in your interesting post, so perhaps he'll learn something before his 8pm scheduled online/pr0n wank session...

  9. Re:More likely by jez9999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally, on a personal note, I would like to ask yttrstein why he feels compelled to burden the rest of us with his un-informed opinions on this topic. He could have easily researched the issue, in about 5 or 10 minutes, and perhaps contributed something worth reading.

    You must be new here.

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  10. Re:More likely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Some moron will rate you funny but that'd be a lot more safe than CentOS right now.

  11. Re:Hate to break it to you... by csartanis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you stab your face yet? Inquiring minds want to know.