Here's an interesting development I didn't see coming. Yesterday Red Hat and CentOS announced they were joining forces on this community-developed platform.
http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-incorporates-free-red-hat-clone-centos-70000249... http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/ http://www.centos.org/ http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html