CentOS - Dec 2020 - Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux

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

+1
Looks like between Springdale, Rocky and CloudLinux there will be options.
Such a bad decision that RH made to do this...

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 1:05 PM Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>
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
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> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>

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