<sect1 id="identity-project-mission">

    <title>Corporate Mission</title>

    <para>

        &TC;; exists to produce &TC;;, an Enterprise-class Linux

        Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the

        public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor.

        &TC;; conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution

        policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (&TC;; mainly

        changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and

        artwork.). 

    </para>

    <para>

        &TC;; is developed by a small but growing team of core

        developers.  In turn the core developers are supported by an

        active user community including system administrators, network

        administrators, enterprise users, managers, core Linux

        contributors and Linux enthusiasts from around the world.

    </para>

    <para>

        &TC;; has numerous advantages including: an active and growing

        user community, quickly rebuilt, tested, and QA'ed errata

        packages, an extensive mirror network, developers who are

        contactable and responsive of a reliable Enterprise-class

        Linux Distribution, multiple free support avenues including a

        <ulink type="http" url="http://wiki.centos.org/">Wiki</ulink>,

        url="http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=8">IRC

        Chat</ulink>, 

        url="http://lists.centos.org/">Email Lists</ulink>, 

        type="http"

        url="http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/">Forums</ulink>, and

        a dynamic 

        url="http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/">FAQ</ulink>.

    </para>

</sect1>