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Re: Centos.rip

#11

Post by alfyboy »

bem94 wrote: post #5
alfyboy wrote: post #2

What is the context behind this?

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-Dece...

Oh, wow. I'm running CentOS 8 on my home server. Anyone have any recomendations for a good, stable, home server OS?

Re: Centos.rip

#12

Post by znpy »

bitcharmer wrote: post #8

I think we all knew this was coming when IBM acquired RedHat. Does anyone know if the licensing is permissive enough to enable Centos spin-offs? If that's possible there's a decent chance some company will jump on it and fill the void.

One could pull the same trick that CentOS pulled: check-out all the sources, replace all the logos and trademarks and rebuild.

I honestly hope this is what's going to happen.

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#13

Post by bombcar »

znpy wrote: post #4
alfyboy wrote: post #2

What is the context behind this?

CentOS is dead, basically. It was announced yesterday.

Someone could pick up the source compiling and call it dollarOS. I’d pay $1 per server to keep my centos machines alive

Re: Centos.rip

#14

Post by acdha »

alfyboy wrote: post #11
bem94 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-Dece...

Oh, wow. I'm running CentOS 8 on my home server. Anyone have any recomendations for a good, stable, home server OS?

Debian's been a solid choice since the 1990s…

Re: Centos.rip

#15

Post by znpy »

alfyboy wrote: post #11
bem94 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-Dece...

Oh, wow. I'm running CentOS 8 on my home server. Anyone have any recomendations for a good, stable, home server OS?

Assuming that CentOS stays dead, I'd probably recommend Ubuntu LTS.

I should probably give a look at openSuse...

Re: Centos.rip

#17

Post by ddevault »

I would advise anyone who's using this as an opportunity to move on to greener pastures in terms of distributions to consider Alpine Linux: https://alpinelinux.org

SourceHut runs entirely on Alpine, as do my personal workstations. It is extremely reliable, stable, and robust; maintainable over long periods of time with minimal effort; and small and simple enough to be easily understood by everyone responsible for its use on your teams. The package repositories are somewhat small - you may have to write some packages yourself, but don't be afraid of that. It's very easy and you would be well-advised to learn how it's done if you're going to invest in any distro.

I consider Alpine Linux to be a competitive advantage for my business. CentOS and RHEL provide the illusion of stability and an executive who will weep and beg for forgiveness when it breaks, but true stability is only possible through simplicity.

Re: Centos.rip

#18

Post by darkr »

bitcharmer wrote: post #8

I think we all knew this was coming when IBM acquired RedHat. Does anyone know if the licensing is permissive enough to enable Centos spin-offs? If that's possible there's a decent chance some company will jump on it and fill the void.

CentOS is/was based upon RHEL.

In the same family of RHEL clone distros there is at least:

* Oracle (yuk)

* Scientific Linux (though I don't think they attempt to guarantee binary compatibility as CentOS does/did)

Re: Centos.rip

#19

Post by pluc »

acdha wrote: post #14
alfyboy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, wow. I'm running CentOS 8 on my home server. Anyone have any recomendations for a good, stable, home server OS?

Debian's been a solid choice since the 1990s…

So good Ubuntu runs it
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