On 1/21/21 8:53 PM, Alfredo Perez wrote:> Is this good news for the "Centos" family? >There is no CentOS "family". CentOS clone is dead and will be now replaced with no-cost RHEL, so in market share (over time) CentOS will be replaced with RHEL. CentOS Stream will be used solely by developers and and entities like Facebook (as a base for their own in house solution). With 16-system no-cost production license package there might be drop in RHEL clone demand, and some Oracle users might decide to move to RHEL (but this is total unknown depending on perception of Red Hat and Oracle in peoples minds). -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:36:44PM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:> On 1/21/21 8:53 PM, Alfredo Perez wrote: > > Is this good news for the "Centos" family? > > > > There is no CentOS "family". CentOS clone is dead and will be nowOdd that you say it's dead when 7 doesn't sunset until June 30th, 2024. John -- I do not fear an army of lions, if they are led by a lamb. I do fear an army of sheep, if they are led by a lion. -- Alexander the Great -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20210121/be65f339/attachment-0005.sig>
On 21/01/2021 22:40, John R. Dennison wrote:> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:36:44PM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> On 1/21/21 8:53 PM, Alfredo Perez wrote: >>> Is this good news for the "Centos" family? >>> >> >> There is no CentOS "family". CentOS clone is dead and will be now > > Odd that you say it's dead when 7 doesn't sunset until June 30th, 2024. > >Surely anyone requiring less than 16 licences will now ditch CentOS 7 in favour of RHEL7? The rest may stay on CentOS 7 for a year or so until there is a clearer picture around viable alternatives. This may as well become the RHEL users list and CentOS-Devel effectively becomes the CentOS-Stream mailing list?
On 1/21/21 11:40 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:36:44PM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> On 1/21/21 8:53 PM, Alfredo Perez wrote: >>> Is this good news for the "Centos" family? >>> >> >> There is no CentOS "family". CentOS clone is dead and will be now > > Odd that you say it's dead when 7 doesn't sunset until June 30th, 2024. >Maybe not best choice of the word, but I meant there will not be further development on that front. CentOS 7 cloning will be just rinse and repeat of established process. If CentOS 8 was not killed almost no one would have installed CentOS 7 on any new server (keeping in mind desire for 10-year til EOL), so I see CentOS 7 as close to EOL and his usefulness for new systems will only decrease. Hence it is as good as dead in my mind when looking into the future, I am looking for future distro of choice. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant