Re: CentOS 8 EOL; CentOS Stream?

2020-12-08 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
With my conspiracy-theory hat on, I suspect the timing of this announcement, a week after the demise of the much-loved RHEL6. -- Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK and...@aitchison.me.uk

Re: CentOS 8 EOL; CentOS Stream?

2020-12-08 Thread Yasha Karant
I agree with your sentiments, based upon several informal discussions I have had with CentOS 8 "adopters". "Supported" RHEL 8 seems to be better -- but are there still issues with EPEL, etc., because of inappropriate sub-system designations (as with the python example you provide)? From what

Re: CentOS 8 EOL; CentOS Stream?

2020-12-08 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 04:39:32PM -0800, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > > It has been almost exactly seven years since Red Hat bought CentOS > The way I remember it, RedHat approached CentOS lead developers and made them an offer they could not refuse. > > Very curious how CERN and Fermilab will

Re: CentOS 8 EOL; CentOS Stream?

2020-12-08 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
It has been almost exactly seven years since Red Hat bought CentOS (

Re: CentOS 8 EOL; CentOS Stream?

2020-12-08 Thread d tbsky
is there any possibility for scientific linux 8? we are testing centos 8 for several monthes, but scientific linux is much better.

Re: CentOS 8 EOL; CentOS Stream?

2020-12-08 Thread Yasha Karant
For those who want to be nauseated, here is the essential quote of the post: The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a

CentOS 8 EOL; CentOS Stream?

2020-12-08 Thread ~Stack~
Anyone else on the verge of tears after reading today's CentOS blog post?