
In the past two years, the concept of truly community based, locally rebuildable distributions, packaged with full sources and build specifications released using the tool RPM and maintained by YUM, has been adopted and taken off. Recently the cAos-1 and CentOS distributions have become stable, reliable and very usable, and so
attracted user communities.
The wide adoption of the more recent CentOS 'point' releases has strained the mirror structure, in managing transfer load, in back-end administration of synchronization, in stale mirror element management, and in other ways. With the impending release into general distribution of the final cAos-2 the need for some rework has been clear, and for the several weeks, an ad hoc team has gathered to plan for growth.
dedicated CentOS servers are custom built from top grade hardware components.