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Does this mean that CentOS 8 is EOL come 2021? Weren't maintenance updates meant to go to 2029? What about everybody who built their product on the assumption that there would be a stable CentOS until then?
I wouldn't be surprised if this means that another project will crop up soon-ish which does what CentOS did before, rebuild RHEL so there is a stable, boring distribution for people who want RHEL without wanting or being able to pay RH.
I am not sure how CentOS Stream makes any sense. CentOS stands for Community Enterprise Operating System, how on earth can CentOS Stream be called an Enterprise operating System?
However, doing this will effectively make CentOS as a server OS useless for the most of us. "But Facebook uses it" - well, yes, with thousands of engineers Facebook could run their own distro and still have success if they wanted. Most useless argument ever.
Time to move on and find something else. Maybe good old Debian.
Makes sense commercially from RH's point of view. Boring and stable is now chargeable.
So CentOS is no longer relevant for production use. I wonder who stands to benefit. I really don't see it driving more sales to RHEL like the execs probably predict.
...sounds like what they expect
> it removes confusion around what “CentOS” means in the Linux distribution ecosystem
This justification for the change seems like a solution to a problem that doesn't yet exist but probably will soon!
I think the doom and gloom is a misunderstanding.