Ljubomir Ljubojevic
2020-Dec-13 11:05 UTC
[CentOS] Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux
Just an update, name of the project will be "Lenix", and I missedin announcement that unlike CentOS they plan to publish all the build tools and environment so other clones can be built even if they stray, a very commendable approach. On 12/10/20 8:05 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:> Someone is smarter then Red Hat/IBM, "Carpe Diem": > > Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux > > (https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-community-driven-rhel-fork-by-cloudlinux) > > CentOS is a fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and undoubtedly a > popular choice to deploy on production servers because of its rock-solid > stability and compatibility. But, now with CentOS Stream, Red Hat just > killed CentOS as we know it. And as expected, people started to fork Red > Hat to give a viable community-based alternative to RHEL. > > > > As we already maintain CloudLinux OS, we plan to release a free, > open-sourced, community-driven, 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL? 8 > (and future releases) in the Q1 of 2021. We will create a separate, > totally free OS that is fully binary compatible with RHEL? 8 (and future > versions). We will sponsor the development & maintenance of such OS. We > will work on establishing a community around the OS, with the governing > board from members of the community. > > > Why We Are Doing It > > We have all the infrastructure, software and experience to do that > already. We have a large staff of developers and maintainers that have a > decade of experience in building an RHEL fork, starting from RHEL5 to RHEL8. > We expect that this project will put us on the map, and allow people > to discover our rebootless update software and Extended Lifecycle > Support offering. > > > > What Will We Do To Make Sure That It Doesn't Go Wrong > > We plan to make all the build and test software free, open-sourced, easy > to set up, so if we ever go in the wrong direction - the community can > just pick up where we left off. > > > What It Means For You > > If you are running CloudLinux OS 8 - it will continue to have stable and > well-tested updates until 2029, and ELS releases for years after that. > > > > If you are running CentOS 8 - we will release an OS very similar to > CentOS 8 based on RHEL 8 stable. We will provide stable and well-tested > updates until 2029 - completely free. You will be able to convert from > CentOS 8 at any moment by running a single command that switches > repositories & keys. > > > Timeline > > Q1 2021 > >-- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
Nikolaos Milas
2020-Dec-13 19:36 UTC
[CentOS] Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux
On 13/12/2020 1:05 ?.?., Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:> Just an update, name of the project will be "Lenix", and I missedin > announcement that unlike CentOS they plan to publish all the build tools > and environment so other clones can be built even if they stray, a very > commendable approach.Sounds great! It comes to mind that if Lenix and RockyLinux (and possibly other major forces) could merge and join efforts as a common project, the project could gain tremendous momentum very fast. As was earlier mentioned, it is not easy to maintain such projects in the long term (despite goodwill), so joining forces would be quite safer for both the projects and the community, while it would also keep the community more focused, avoiding to disperse in multiple distros. In any case, this is the kind of projects we would want to see, rather than large corporations' clones like OL. And what I like is that there is so much energy in the CentOS community, that so important new projects are being announced in day zero after CentOS suicidal turn to Stream. I am very confident that CentOS will live and prosper, but with a different name! (Unless IBM/RH **immediately** withdraw their announced plans and course of action.) Cheers, Nick