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CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat refused to invest in it

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Re: CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat refused to invest in it

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Post by naringas »

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #7
naringas wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they have no face, just a series of rules, methods, procedures,..etc. in all, a culture desgined by multiple generations of firm executives optimized to make profit in any way they can.

Well, they are a for profit company.

I'm only trying to say what they really are. it would be unfair to judge them only based on what they are.

then again, I see open source slowly but steadily losing ground. and if open source has a tough time. free software has it even worse.

Re: CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat refused to invest in it

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Post by s5ma6n »

cpach wrote: post #5

An alternative distro is being developed here: https://rockylinux.org/

This is good news but due to the nature of widely adopted open-source projects, they are still vulnerable to a similar situation. It is listed that AWS is one of the sponsors of the Rocky Linux. Recently we have seen what happened between elastic and AWS. So, AWS could also pull an IBM and decide to drop it or tie it tightly with AWS services etc.

It is a difficult situation in general and it is a shame that this was one of the most used distros in servers.

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Post by daptaq »

If this can happen to CentOS, do we have to fear a comparable fate for Fedora? I've been using it for the last year, and it has been a nice change, but I wouldn't want it to die out because of strategy decisions. On the other hand, Fedora and RHEL don't seem to be in direct competition.

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Post by cube00 »

yakattak wrote: post #13

My previous employer went all in on ditching their RHEL boxes for CentOS. I wonder how that change is treating them now. Given this change by Red Hat/IBM, was it wasted effort? I wonder if they’ll now switch back to RHEL.

All the devs can chip in and contribute their 16 production server allocation each.

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Post by cube00 »

> CentOS is a sponsored project, we are the funding agent and we happen to also be a heavy contributor.

It would be interesting if there was a way to determine if any other open source projects have this kind of large dependency on a single company. Track GitHub accounts doing the commits which are linked to orgs perhaps?

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Post by bombcar »

daptaq wrote: post #15

If this can happen to CentOS, do we have to fear a comparable fate for Fedora? I've been using it for the last year, and it has been a nice change, but I wouldn't want it to die out because of strategy decisions. On the other hand, Fedora and RHEL don't seem to be in direct competition.

Anything can die - even Debian (!!) could die or be taken over given enough changes.

But some are much more likely than others, and choosing which to base yourself on is a form a risk decision; perhaps a minor one.

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Post by adamcstephens »

Frost1x wrote: post #8

Large corporation undermines a group of people to make a buck, news at 11... Businesses aren't your friends , repeat it with me, no matter how much propoganda they regularly spew out. Sometimes their goals may be temporarily aligned with yours in which case you can leverage their resources but never forget their goals can shift to be misaligned with yours at any point, making them a partial or direct enemy of your go…

Businesses aren’t your friends. Employers aren’t your family.

Be wary of either group selling them as such.

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