Last week I came across a new Open Source project which looks very promising to me (and at the same time got almost no media coverage yet). Therefore I decided to blog about this right now: ​Ascendos.

Ascendos is will be a free rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), technically very similar to ​CentOS.

I started to write a bit of technical background what is so interesting about RHEL but it became to long so you find that in a separate blog post.

Why is Ascendos so exciting to me:

• The CentOS project has severe management problems and there are no signs of even acknowledging the problem.
• From the mission statement on the web site it looks like Ascendos will work in a way that I always wanted from CentOS.
• At least one ​core member of Scientific Linux participates in Ascendos (even though on personal time) and Scientific Linux is generally more ​open about their "secret sauce".

So it looks like the time has finally come for a serious CentOS contender. Currently it's all vaporware but I'm hoping for the best.