Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/15/20 7:59 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote: Why would RedHat invest millions more in buying the CentOS process just to have CentOS act as the beta? Indeed. Often, when you can't find a reasonable answer to a question, it is because the premise of the question itself is wrong.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Joshua Kramer
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 7:41 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > $250K is not even close. That is one employee, when you also take into > account unemployment insurance, HR, medical insurance etc. now multiply > that by 8. Now, outfit those 8 employees to work from home .. all over > the world,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Joshua Kramer
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 9:14 PM Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL (6393) Washington DC (USA) via CentOS wrote: > Every package that ends up in a RHEL point release is in Stream at some > point, right? While I can certainly believe that the cost for the entire > CentOS effort is much more than

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL (6393) Washington DC (USA) via CentOS
On Dec 15, 2020, at 7:41 PM, Johnny Hughes mailto:joh...@centos.org>> wrote: $250K is not even close. That is one employee, when you also take into account unemployment insurance, HR, medical insurance etc. now multiply that by 8. Now, outfit those 8 employees to work from home .. all over

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 7:41 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/15/20 6:12 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote: > >> I don't think there will be a course change either, but for different > >> reasons. The motivation isn't "cashing/selling out". It's... actually > the > >> stated motivation > >>

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/15/20 6:30 PM, R C wrote: > > On 12/15/20 3:04 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >> If you want a RHEL clone, that's fine.  There will be one available. >> Someone will make one. > > Once IBM owns it?  You think?  They allowed cloning once ..  a long time > ago. > How many people have to tell

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/15/20 6:12 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote: >> I don't think there will be a course change either, but for different >> reasons. The motivation isn't "cashing/selling out". It's... actually the >> stated motivation >> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-centos-stream-updates#Q2 > > First, I will

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-15 Thread R C
On 12/15/20 3:04 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: If you want a RHEL clone, that's fine. There will be one available. Someone will make one. Once IBM owns it?  You think?  They allowed cloning once ..  a long time ago. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Joshua Kramer
> I don't think there will be a course change either, but for different > reasons. The motivation isn't "cashing/selling out". It's... actually the > stated motivation > https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-centos-stream-updates#Q2 First, I will note that I think the idea of creating *a version of*

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-15 Thread R C
On 12/15/20 4:11 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 5:04 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: On 12/14/20 8:25 AM, James Pearson wrote: Nicolas Kovacs Here's an interesting read which makes a point for CentOS Stream:

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-15 Thread Tom Bishop
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 5:35 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/15/20 5:11 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 5:04 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > >> On 12/14/20 8:25 AM, James Pearson wrote: > >>> Nicolas Kovacs > > Here's an interesting read which makes a point for

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/15/20 5:11 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 5:04 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 12/14/20 8:25 AM, James Pearson wrote: >>> Nicolas Kovacs Here's an interesting read which makes a point for CentOS Stream: >>

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-15 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 5:04 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/14/20 8:25 AM, James Pearson wrote: > > Nicolas Kovacs > >> > >> Here's an interesting read which makes a point for CentOS Stream: > >> > >> >

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/14/20 8:25 AM, James Pearson wrote: > Nicolas Kovacs >> >> Here's an interesting read which makes a point for CentOS Stream: >> >> https://freedomben.medium.com/centos-is-not-dead-please-stop-saying-it-is-at-least-until-you-read-this-4b26b5c44877 >> >> tl;dr: Communication about Stream was

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-15 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 15/12/2020 à 17:04, Ruslanas Gžibovskis a écrit : > But free flag is in uncertain situation. > > And I have been working with UBK or how is shortened their unbreakable > kernel... No good ;)) we managed to break it ;)) and recover DB. I'm not sure you understand what you're saying. --

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Phil Perry
On 15/12/2020 18:35, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:21:17PM +, Phil Perry wrote: thanks to bring this up - this is a big issue. How could we communicate this? Bugzilla? Anyone listing here? Here you go: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1908047 At the moment

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:45:43AM -0700, R C wrote: > > I didn't know that fact, but hey that could be a pretty cool tribute. It was in Greg's announcement of Rocky Linux. Right up near the top if I recall correctly. John -- Time

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:21:17PM +, Phil Perry wrote: > >thanks to bring this up - this is a big issue. How could we > >communicate this? Bugzilla? Anyone listing here? > > Here you go: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1908047 > > At the moment the only way we have to feed

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread R C
On 12/15/20 11:15 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 12/15/20 5:58 PM, R C wrote: When was the last time a large company (think IBM, Sun, Novell Netware, Oracle) had a great idea to create or take over an OS, or a community only ending up in a situation that only almost killed them. (Yeah MS,

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Phil Perry
On 15/12/2020 17:51, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Am 15.12.20 um 18:07 schrieb Phil Perry: 3. 'dnf downgrade foo' doesn't work as only latest/one copy of each package in Stream repository so no opportunity to downgrade/roll back broken packages. thanks to bring this up - this is a big

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Tom Bishop
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 12:07 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:24:03AM -0600, Tom Bishop wrote: > > I know you and other RHEL folks keep saying this about cashing out etc, > but > > they could have kept stream and Centos stable at the same time but chose > > not to. Ya know,

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 12/15/20 5:58 PM, R C wrote: > When was the last time a large company (think IBM, Sun, Novell Netware, > Oracle) had a great idea to create or take over an OS, or a community > only ending up in a situation that only almost killed them. (Yeah MS, > but they figured out that giving it away for

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread R C
On 12/15/20 11:07 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:24:03AM -0600, Tom Bishop wrote: I know you and other RHEL folks keep saying this about cashing out etc, but they could have kept stream and Centos stable at the same time but chose not to. Ya know, if it walks like a duck

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-15 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:53 PM Matti Pulkkinen wrote: > > Ruslanas Gžibovskis kirjoitti 15.12.2020 klo 18.04: > > I think Peter have already spent some time and read around agreement and so > > on. So the price is understandable. And really, everyone need to keep in > > mind that anyone can

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:24:03AM -0600, Tom Bishop wrote: > I know you and other RHEL folks keep saying this about cashing out etc, but > they could have kept stream and Centos stable at the same time but chose > not to. Ya know, if it walks like a duck and quacks as a duck...who knows > maybe

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-15 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
Ruslanas Gžibovskis kirjoitti 15.12.2020 klo 18.04: I think Peter have already spent some time and read around agreement and so on. So the price is understandable. And really, everyone need to keep in mind that anyone can change their licence any time. If You ask personally me, Matti, I do not

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 15.12.20 um 18:07 schrieb Phil Perry: 3. 'dnf downgrade foo' doesn't work as only latest/one copy of each package in Stream repository so no opportunity to downgrade/roll back broken packages. thanks to bring this up - this is a big issue. How could we communicate this? Bugzilla? Anyone

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Jon Pruente
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:31 AM Phelps, Matthew wrote: > Not to mention the constant barrage of "You just want free Red Hat" and > "CentOS users are moochers" and "We deserve value from all those CentOS > users, so we're going to turn them into beta testers for RHEL." I have > gotten these

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 15.12.20 um 18:22 schrieb Phil Perry: On 15/12/2020 17:13, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 05:09:39PM +, Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL (6393) Washington DC (USA) via CentOS wrote: 3. 'dnf downgrade foo' doesn't work as only latest/one copy of each package in Stream

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread R C
On 12/15/20 10:31 AM, Jon Pruente wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 2:48 AM R C wrote: 'Rocky Linux' guy might actually be on to something (although I'd pick another distro name) The name comes from his CentOS co-founder Rocky McGaugh, who is no longer with us, in his memory. I didn't know

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Peter Huebner
Am Dienstag, den 15.12.2020, 12:06 -0500 schrieb Matthew Miller: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 01:48:21AM -0700, R C wrote: > > I think that Centos, being that close to RHEL, should have had a > > licensing scheme for personal use, small business use, just to make > > things 'fair'. > > So, again,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread R C
On 12/15/20 10:30 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:24 PM Tom Bishop wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 11:06 AM Matthew Miller wrote: I don't think there will be a course change either, but for different reasons. The motivation isn't "cashing/selling out". It's...

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread R C
On 12/15/20 10:24 AM, Tom Bishop wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 11:06 AM Matthew Miller wrote: I don't think there will be a course change either, but for different reasons. The motivation isn't "cashing/selling out". It's... actually the stated motivation

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Jon Pruente
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 2:48 AM R C wrote: > 'Rocky Linux' guy might actually be on to something (although I'd pick > another distro name) > The name comes from his CentOS co-founder Rocky McGaugh, who is no longer with us, in his memory. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:24 PM Tom Bishop wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 11:06 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > > > > > > > > > I don't think there will be a course change either, but for different > > reasons. The motivation isn't "cashing/selling out". It's... actually the > > stated motivation >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Tom Bishop
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 11:06 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > > > > I don't think there will be a course change either, but for different > reasons. The motivation isn't "cashing/selling out". It's... actually the > stated motivation > https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-centos-stream-updates#Q2 > > >

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Phil Perry
On 15/12/2020 17:13, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 05:09:39PM +, Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL (6393) Washington DC (USA) via CentOS wrote: 3. 'dnf downgrade foo' doesn't work as only latest/one copy of each package in Stream repository so no opportunity to downgrade/roll

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread R C
On 12/15/20 10:06 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 01:48:21AM -0700, R C wrote: I think that Centos, being that close to RHEL, should have had a licensing scheme for personal use, small business use, just to make things 'fair'. So, again, please stay tuned. Not for licensing

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Phil Perry
On 15/12/2020 17:09, Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL (6393) Washington DC (USA) via CentOS wrote: On Dec 15, 2020, at 12:07 PM, Phil Perry wrote: 3. 'dnf downgrade foo' doesn't work as only latest/one copy of each package in Stream repository so no opportunity to downgrade/roll back broken

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL (6393) Washington DC (USA) via CentOS
> On Dec 15, 2020, at 12:13 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 05:09:39PM +, Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL (6393) > Washington DC (USA) via CentOS wrote: >>> 3. 'dnf downgrade foo' doesn't work as only latest/one copy of each package >>> in Stream repository so no

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 05:09:39PM +, Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL (6393) Washington DC (USA) via CentOS wrote: > > 3. 'dnf downgrade foo' doesn't work as only latest/one copy of each package > > in Stream repository so no opportunity to downgrade/roll back broken > > packages. > Really? I

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:29:51PM +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Good day from Singapore, > What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream? CentOS Linux rebuilds packages after they are available from Red Hat as errata or as minor release updates. CentOS Stream

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL (6393) Washington DC (USA) via CentOS
> On Dec 15, 2020, at 12:07 PM, Phil Perry wrote: > > 3. 'dnf downgrade foo' doesn't work as only latest/one copy of each package > in Stream repository so no opportunity to downgrade/roll back broken packages. Really? I hadn't appreciated that. How does one the contribute back to RH/the

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Phil Perry
On 15/12/2020 15:29, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: Good day from Singapore, What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream? At the moment, I only know that CentOS 8 support will end on 31 December 2021 while Red Hat Inc will shift its focus to CentOS Stream. Is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 01:48:21AM -0700, R C wrote: > I think that Centos, being that close to RHEL, should have had a > licensing scheme for personal use, small business use, just to make > things 'fair'. So, again, please stay tuned. Not for licensing schemes for CentOS, but for programs for

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread R C
On 12/15/20 9:20 AM, Kevin K wrote: As a bystander who just the other day saw this, no. It doesn't appear that it will be a bleeding edge kernel. Just builds of the next kernel expected to be in the next 8.X release. So you are getting updated features earlier, but maybe before all the known

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Kevin K
As a bystander who just the other day saw this, no. It doesn't appear that it will be a bleeding edge kernel. Just builds of the next kernel expected to be in the next 8.X release. So you are getting updated features earlier, but maybe before all the known issues are resolved to a state ready

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-15 Thread Ruslanas Gžibovskis
I think Peter have already spent some time and read around agreement and so on. So the price is understandable. And really, everyone need to keep in mind that anyone can change their licence any time. If You ask personally me, Matti, I do not see point using oracleLinux if can use Rocky/fedora

[CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-15 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Good day from Singapore, What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream? At the moment, I only know that CentOS 8 support will end on 31 December 2021 while Red Hat Inc will shift its focus to CentOS Stream. Is CentOS Stream going to be very similar to Fedora Linux, shipping

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-15 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
Ruslanas Gžibovskis kirjoitti 15.12.2020 klo 11.14: Legal and "can do" are 2 different things. ;) As someone who is considering moving to OL, I wonder if you could elaborate clearly on what specific concerns you have, without the insinuation and analogy? Oracle's proposition [1] seems pretty

Re: [CentOS] The conclusio: CentOS is dead

2020-12-15 Thread Simon Matter
> Il 14/12/20 23:47, Ruslanas Gžibovskis ha scritto: >> your suggestions? > > It is the debian family time man. I'm converting many stuff to debian > buster and some on Ubuntu LTS 20.04. > > Would be great if FreeBSD will be largely adopted now. FreeBSD becomes more and more my favorite now: -

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-15 Thread Peter Huebner
Am Dienstag, den 15.12.2020, 10:14 +0100 schrieb Ruslanas Gžibovskis: > GPL stuff applies only to GPL parts, but they can have Oracle blob in > everything. The same time, TM's and so on... According to the Oracle license terms and official statements, it is "free to download, use and share. There

Re: [CentOS] The conclusio: CentOS is dead

2020-12-15 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 14/12/20 23:47, Ruslanas Gžibovskis ha scritto: your suggestions? It is the debian family time man. I'm converting many stuff to debian buster and some on Ubuntu LTS 20.04. Would be great if FreeBSD will be largely adopted now. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-15 Thread Anthony K
On 13/12/20 7:15 pm, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 11/12/2020 à 02:25, Gordon Messmer a écrit : Personally, I think that changing focus on CentOS Stream is going to make CentOS (and maybe even RHEL) better in the same way and for the same reasons that Fedora is a better distribution than Red Hat

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-15 Thread Anthony K
On 14/12/20 6:56 am, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/13/20 2:45 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: When people are happy with something they do not voice their content on the mailing list, mailing list is only to voice your discontent. You heard about "silent majority", right? Ever though why it is

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-15 Thread Ruslanas Gžibovskis
GPL stuff applies only to GPL parts, but they can have Oracle blob in everything. The same time, TM's and so on... Do you know how one of the biggest cases with torrents and MS products was won against guys who shared it? Because MS TM was used incorrect way, sharing ISO files of ALL MS projects

Re: [CentOS] The conclusio: CentOS is dead

2020-12-15 Thread R C
On 12/15/20 2:05 AM, Ruslanas Gžibovskis wrote: Oracle Linux, only after Oracle Solaris will shine again with their awesome SPARC arch... Which has an amazing features... Solaris tried to take over the "Sunos/bsd status quo", that was a disaster, it was a good idea but licensing killed it.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Thomas Bendler
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 9:18 AM Patrick Bégou < patrick.be...@legi.grenoble-inp.fr> wrote: > I'm also using CentOS for a while and I'm deploying a CentOS8 cluster > for some months because it was supported until 2029! Bad idea. > For me, using debian has 2 important drawbacks > - some of

Re: [CentOS] The conclusio: CentOS is dead

2020-12-15 Thread Ruslanas Gžibovskis
Oracle Linux, only after Oracle Solaris will shine again with their awesome SPARC arch... Which has an amazing features... Nice, I did not check Devuan for a long time, if they still alive... hmm, I have hope in Rocky then, but would be more fun if guys do not just scrap everything fast into

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 12/15/20 9:48 AM, R C wrote: > The only thing RHEL can 'bank on' in the near future is that there is > nothing else around yet. (but problems like these never lasted long in > the past) Springdale made by Princeton exists longer then CentOS: https://puias.math.ias.edu/ They have "network" CD

Re: [CentOS] The conclusio: CentOS is dead

2020-12-15 Thread R C
On 12/15/20 1:32 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 15/12/2020 à 08:17, Nikolaos Milas a écrit : My course of action is to wait for Lenix (Ref.: https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-community-driven-rhel-fork-by-cloudlinux) and Rocky Linux (https://rockylinux.org/) by CentOS original

Re: [CentOS] The conclusio: CentOS is dead

2020-12-15 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 12/15/20 9:32 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 15/12/2020 à 08:17, Nikolaos Milas a écrit : >> >> My course of action is to wait for Lenix (Ref.: >> https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-community-driven-rhel-fork-by-cloudlinux) >> and Rocky Linux (https://rockylinux.org/) by CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread R C
I think that Centos, being that close to RHEL, should have had a licensing scheme for personal use, small business use, just to make things 'fair'. It should be fine to use Centos as a "Community Enterprise OS", as a stepping stone, but once it starts taking off, like it did with some big

Re: [CentOS] The conclusio: CentOS is dead

2020-12-15 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 15/12/2020 à 08:17, Nikolaos Milas a écrit : > > My course of action is to wait for Lenix (Ref.: > https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-community-driven-rhel-fork-by-cloudlinux) > and Rocky Linux (https://rockylinux.org/) by CentOS original founder. Right now Rocky Linux is not

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Patrick Bégou
I'm also using CentOS for a while and I'm deploying a CentOS8 cluster for some months because it was supported until 2029! Bad idea. For me, using debian has 2 important drawbacks - some of proprietary software we are using is certified RHEL and SLES. Deploying on CentOS is out-of-thebox.