141–144 of 144 posts
Looking for both volunteers or people who want to be paid for their efforts. Join us to secure Enterprise Linux as a free (as in beer and freedom) for the foreseeable future.
I appreciate the suggestions for alternative Linux server distros, and understand people asking about such, but CentOS wasn't just another decent Linux server distro. It's status as a direct rebuild of RHEL, crucially including robust binary compatibility, gave it a unique role. Ubuntu LTS, Alpine, Debian, etc are all fine distros but there's a particular role for a very precise completely open and free RHEL clone. H…
as a side note, the design of the parody centos.rip website is a pretty decent clean wordpress or other CMS template, if they didn't build it by hand.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are several third-party repos to install up to date software on CentOS.
It’s better now, wasn’t there when Docker came along. You also missed my point, the infrastructure teams already built stable infra on CentOS, the work was done. They didn’t always account for people wanting to run new versions of Imagemagick to process user uploaded photos, . This is what developers needed. They wanted to pipe curl through gunzip to get what was required. Docker ticked the boxes for devs and ops.
What I did want though, was newer versions of PHP, Python and GCC. They could be gotten through either the Red Hat Developer Toolsets (which by themselves are a great way of packaging the compiler because you could actually have different versions on one machine) or the IUS repos (as the acronym implies "inline with upstream stable", also a great achievement).