Red Hat plans to take a greater role in the community developing CentOS, in the hope of attracting more paying customers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the distribution on which CentOS is based. Red Hat will take a more active role in the CentOS Project to strengthen its development and broaden the reach of projects such as OpenStack, an open source cloud operating system that can be built on CentOS, and to which Red Hat also contributes, it said Tuesday.