On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 8:30 PM sciUser <[email protected]> wrote:
> > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-shifts-from-red-hat-unbranded-to-red-hat-beta/?comments=1 > > Let's balance the news sources, a bit: https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ So, CentOS (= Red Hat = IBM) is moving away from providing a free release that, essentially, matches up to the RHEL release. We can speculate about their motives, but that's what they're doing. To say "CentOS is going away" is both dramatically misleading and false. And, to be fair, lest we assign motives and crucify IBM/Red Hat/CentOS for this, they aren't the first or only ones - SuSE has behaved in similar fashion for years with their Linux releases, using OpenSuSE as the proving grounds for their SLES product (and not providing any analog free SLES version). Red Hat has had Fedora around as the cutting/bleeding edge, so it looks like what they're doing is positioning CentOS in between Fedora and RHEL. And, without having read much more than these two articles, this may make sense - you get a release that moves faster than RHEL to adopt newer versions of software, but is more stable than Fedora. Why not?? > It maybe time to perform a fork and use Ubuntu with React. > I am also a bit puzzled by what you mean by this statement? Fork Guacamole and use Ubuntu with React? Guacamole doesn't rely on any CentOS components. Fork CentOS and use Ubuntu with React? That makes even less sense. How does React relate in any way to Red Hat's plans for CentOS? > > Does Guacamole plan using the CentOS Stream? > > If you're referring to source code or client builds, there's no current reliance upon or tie of any of that to CentOS, and I know of no plans to introduce that - either to CentOS or any other distribution. If you're referring to the Docker images, Guacamole Client just uses the upstream Tomcat container, so it'll follow whatever they do. The Guacamole Server (guacd) Docker image switched to Debian in 2019 due, primarily, to FreeRDP library issues. In short, there is no direct tie/reliance of Guacamole to or on CentOS. It's possible we used CentOS Stream images at some point in the future, but it's possible we will not. I would imagine we will continue to support building Guacamole, particularly guacd, on a variety of platforms including future CentOS Stream releases. -Nick
