CentOS - Dec 2020 - [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

On 09/12/2020 07:16, Kingsly John wrote:
>
> A non-paying CentOS user is not a real loss for RHEL. But people dumping
> CentOS for a non-RHEL clone is definitely going to impact their future
> revenues as they are losing mindshare/goodwill/easy migration etc.
And worse: Without CentOS being used widely (junior) admins will have 
even less experience dealing with RHEL. This will result in lower 
quality deployments of RHEL, reducing overall security of those systems 
and it will reduce RHEL adoption, hitting RH/IBM where it hurts them most.

I am seeing this in practice already with juniors - they all use Ubuntu 
on their personal systems and they hate having to deal with RHEL. And 
their opinions matter in the long run.


peter

On 12/9/20 10:26 AM, centos at niob.at wrote:
> And worse: Without CentOS being used widely (junior) admins will have even
less experience dealing with RHEL. This will result in lower quality deployments
of RHEL, reducing overall security of those systems and it will reduce RHEL
adoption, hitting RH/IBM where it hurts them most.
> 
> I am seeing this in practice already with juniors - they all use Ubuntu on
their personal systems and they hate having to deal with RHEL. And their
opinions matter in the long run.
Absolutely true.
They are already ignoring what a real high quality distro is, and pushing into
production
things that are clearly unsuitable for the job.

Regards.

-- 
    Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it

On 09/12/2020 09:26, centos at niob.at wrote:
> On 09/12/2020 07:16, Kingsly John wrote:
>>
>> A non-paying CentOS user is not a real loss for RHEL. But people
dumping
>> CentOS for a non-RHEL clone is definitely going to impact their future
>> revenues as they are losing mindshare/goodwill/easy migration etc.
> 
> And worse: Without CentOS being used widely (junior) admins will have 
> even less experience dealing with RHEL. This will result in lower 
> quality deployments of RHEL, reducing overall security of those systems 
> and it will reduce RHEL adoption, hitting RH/IBM where it hurts them most.
> 
> I am seeing this in practice already with juniors - they all use Ubuntu 
> on their personal systems and they hate having to deal with RHEL. And 
> their opinions matter in the long run.
> 
> 
> peter
> 
And exactly the same applies to senior (or retired) admins on their home 
computers.  My main home machine runs about a dozen testbed VMs, 
DHCP/DNS for the home network, Amanda, NFS and Samba for other machines, 
ownCloud, Apache, Zotero and DokuWiki for the family.  I want a stable 
server under that lot, not a beta release.

-- 
J Martin Rushton MBCS