Hi Giles, hi Daan, Thanks for the discussion Giles. It was a matter of time that since Red hat was bought from IBM that they go another way.
I saw the discussion about the possible successor Rocky but I think the next month will make it more clear where the market is leading to. For us it’s important to support independent of CentOS the commercial distribution of RHEL. Red Hat is one of the largest supporter of KVM and so its strategic to support RHEL further in the future of CloudStack. After some time and if it’s more clear what the future of CentOS will be and the possible successor I think we should think about to change this in the community. I would wait until that stage and observe the situation and then make a decision in the community. Cheers and merry Christmas. Sven __ Sven Vogel Lead Cloud Solution Architect EWERK DIGITAL GmbH Brühl 24, D-04109 Leipzig P +49 341 42649 - 99 F +49 341 42649 - 98 s.vo...@ewerk.com www.ewerk.com Geschäftsführer: Dr. Erik Wende, Hendrik Schubert, Tassilo Möschke Registergericht: Leipzig HRB 9065 Support: +49 341 42649 555 Zertifiziert nach: ISO/IEC 27001:2013 DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 DIN ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 ISAE 3402 Typ II Assessed EWERK-Blog<https://blog.ewerk.com/> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/ewerk-group> | Xing<https://www.xing.com/company/ewerk> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/EWERK_Group> | Facebook<https://de-de.facebook.com/EWERK.IT/> Auskünfte und Angebote per Mail sind freibleibend und unverbindlich. Disclaimer Privacy: Der Inhalt dieser E-Mail (einschließlich etwaiger beigefügter Dateien) ist vertraulich und nur für den Empfänger bestimmt. Sollten Sie nicht der bestimmungsgemäße Empfänger sein, ist Ihnen jegliche Offenlegung, Vervielfältigung, Weitergabe oder Nutzung des Inhalts untersagt. Bitte informieren Sie in diesem Fall unverzüglich den Absender und löschen Sie die E-Mail (einschließlich etwaiger beigefügter Dateien) von Ihrem System. Vielen Dank. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of its contents is strictly prohibited, and you should please notify the sender immediately and then delete it (including any attachments) from your system. Thank you. ________________________________ Von: Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> Gesendet: Thursday, December 24, 2020 3:02:36 PM An: dev <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>; Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com> Betreff: Re: [discuss] CentOS announcement thanks for starting this discussion thread @Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com> . Personally I'd like to not "vote" on anything. Especially not at this moment. I think a discussion is good though. My personal (and most definitely not my business) take on this is to go for fedora. It is unlikely it will find business traction but it does appear to be the most stable distribution funnily enough, especially in the redhat/rpm-verse. I hope we can witness a clear trend over the next twelve months to make a kind of final decision by the end of next year. #excitingtimes On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 12:02 PM Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > You may have seen this news recently announced by Redhat and the CentOS > project. [1] [2] > > > > > > At this early stage, it looks like CentOS Stream will not provide the > stability that we probably expect > > > > So, what Linux distro should we be targeting for MS and KVM agents going > forward ? I guess this is a decision that we have to make as a project. > > > > CentOS 7 will receive full updates only until the year end (Q4 2020) and > maintenance updates will continue until 30 June 2024, so I don't think we > need to rush this decision. Also, I think that there will be a lot of > emerging competitors to fill the void, like the recent announcement of > Rocky. [3] gives a good summary of current choices > > > > I guess, actually, the question is: *when* should we aim to make this > decision ? - the advantage of leaving it is we are able to see what others > settle on. > > > > > [1] Red Hat makes drastic changes to CentOS, leaves users fuming | > TechRadar< > https://www.techradar.com/news/red-hat-makes-drastic-changes-to-centos-leaves-users-fuming > > > > [2] CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream - Blog.CentOS.org< > https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/> > [3] About/Product - CentOS Wiki<https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product> > [4] Where CentOS Linux users can go from here | ZDNet< > https://www.zdnet.com/article/where-centos-linux-users-can-go-from-here/> > > Kind regards > Giles > > > giles.sir...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com> > 3 London Bridge Street, 3rd floor, News Building, London SE1 9SGUK > @shapeblue > > > > -- Daan
