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Re: Centos.rip

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Post by gameswithgo »

api wrote: post #29
JayDoubleu wrote: post #20

This should really be called RIP RedHat tbh. They've just shot themselves in both feet.

Why the hell do huge companies spend tons to acquire things and then kill them? This seems to happen more in computing than other industries. You don't see shipping companies buying completely functional container ships so they can park them out in the middle of the ocean and dynamite a hole in the hull and watch them go glug glug glug for the lulz.

happened to me in publishing. we had built our own online portal to our legal book products, couple million a year in revenue and growing, bought by Reuters, everything shut down, didn’t even bother to look into keeping any of our talent around either. it was weird! severance package was great though.

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Post by bhouston »

mhd wrote: post #23

My existential dread about this is worsened when I read suggestions that the best possible alternative is Oracle Linux...

Ubuntu has been fine for us. We just jump from one LTS to the next.

Re: Centos.rip

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Post by walrus01 »

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-stable amd64

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Post by qz2 »

api wrote: post #29
JayDoubleu wrote: post #20

This should really be called RIP RedHat tbh. They've just shot themselves in both feet.

Why the hell do huge companies spend tons to acquire things and then kill them? This seems to happen more in computing than other industries. You don't see shipping companies buying completely functional container ships so they can park them out in the middle of the ocean and dynamite a hole in the hull and watch them go glug glug glug for the lulz.

Yep they are bastards.

Watch Microsoft carefully.

Re: Centos.rip

#35

Post by idclip »

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?

arch or freebsd. Ubuntu lts/debian depends on ur packages.

Freebsd isnt linux, but is great server OS.

Re: Centos.rip

#36

Post by _ph_ »

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?

Depending what exactly you want, CentOS is still a great choice, especially if you are also using the machine for more than set serving jobs. My understanding is, that CentOS will be exactly in the middle ground between Fedora and Red Hat. So it will be ahead of Red Hat a bit, which is a good thing if you want more current software versions. But not quite as cutting edge as Fedora. Personally, I am fully on Fedora for my development machine as I want current versions of software. I didn't have stability problems with it.

There seems to be also a (planned?) free version of Red Had, if you want complete stability and only security updates.

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#37

Post by dsign »

api wrote: post #29
JayDoubleu wrote: post #20

This should really be called RIP RedHat tbh. They've just shot themselves in both feet.

Why the hell do huge companies spend tons to acquire things and then kill them? This seems to happen more in computing than other industries. You don't see shipping companies buying completely functional container ships so they can park them out in the middle of the ocean and dynamite a hole in the hull and watch them go glug glug glug for the lulz.

Many reasons:

- Eliminate a competitor

- Absorb another company's team

Not all the reasons are as macabre as they sound; sometimes the bought company failed to monetize properly whatever they were doing, and their developers decided it was time to stop eating from bean cans. In those cases an acquisition can improve their diet slightly.

Re: Centos.rip

#38

Post by qz2 »

mhd wrote: post #23

My existential dread about this is worsened when I read suggestions that the best possible alternative is Oracle Linux...

FreeBSD is looking pretty sexy suddenly.

Re: Centos.rip

#39

Post by bhouston »

darkr wrote: post #18
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)

Scientific Linux was discontinued early last year.

Re: Centos.rip

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Post by dpcx »

api wrote: post #29
JayDoubleu wrote: post #20

This should really be called RIP RedHat tbh. They've just shot themselves in both feet.

Why the hell do huge companies spend tons to acquire things and then kill them? This seems to happen more in computing than other industries. You don't see shipping companies buying completely functional container ships so they can park them out in the middle of the ocean and dynamite a hole in the hull and watch them go glug glug glug for the lulz.

I would think for some it's the acquihire, for some it's a way of preventing competition...
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