We’re moving wholesale back to Ubuntu; we didn’t use CentOS anyway very much, but Red Hat increased our licensing costs 10x which put them out of the picture.
Tim > On 8 Dec 2020, at 16:37, Ryan Novosielski <novos...@rutgers.edu> wrote: > > The first comment on the blog does not equivocate. :-D > > -- > #BlackLivesMatter > ____ > || \\UTGERS, > |---------------------------*O*--------------------------- > ||_// the State | Ryan Novosielski - novos...@rutgers.edu > || \\ University | Sr. Technologist - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) ~*~ RBHS Campus > || \\ of NJ | Office of Advanced Research Computing - MSB C630, > Newark > `' > >> On Dec 8, 2020, at 11:27 AM, Chris Samuel <ch...@csamuel.org> wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> It looks like the CentOS project has announced the end of CentOS 8 as a >> version that tracked RHEL for the end of 2021, it will be replaced by the >> CentOS stream which will run ahead of RHEL8. CentOS 7 is unaffected (though >> RHEL7 only has 3 more years of life left). >> >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blog.centos.org_2020_12_future-2Dis-2Dcentos-2Dstream_&d=DwIGaQ&c=D7ByGjS34AllFgecYw0iC6Zq7qlm8uclZFI0SqQnqBo&r=gSesY1AbeTURZwExR_OGFZlp9YUzrLWyYpGmwAw4Q50&m=L2F-vmUIThYp6zG8v5JxFnjhlMglJIeC7TBodEp-vDs&s=EE2gRt-cB9jTXou4jrhdtKol9ae7RTe23OY0IaDVc0U&e= >> >> >>> The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the >>> next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild >>> of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which >>> tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release. CentOS Linux 8, as >>> a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end of 2021. CentOS Stream >>> continues after that date, serving as the upstream (development) >>> branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. >>> >>> Meanwhile, we understand many of you are deeply invested in >>> CentOS Linux 7, and we’ll continue to produce that version through >>> the remainder of the RHEL 7 life cycle. >> >> I always thought that Fedora was meant to be that upstream for RHEL, but >> perhaps the arrangement now will be Fedora -> CentOS -> RHEL. >> >> I wonder where this leaves the Lustre project, currently they only support >> RHEL7/CentOS7 as the server, and more interestingly, people who build Lustre >> appliances on top of CentOS. >> >> Then there's the question of projects like OpenHPC who've only just >> announced support for CentOS8 (and OpenSuSE15). They could choose to track >> CentOS Stream instead, probably without too much effort. >> >> I do wonder if this opens the door for the return of something like >> Scientific Linux. >> >> All the best, >> Chris >> -- >> Chris Samuel : >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.csamuel.org_&d=DwIGaQ&c=D7ByGjS34AllFgecYw0iC6Zq7qlm8uclZFI0SqQnqBo&r=gSesY1AbeTURZwExR_OGFZlp9YUzrLWyYpGmwAw4Q50&m=L2F-vmUIThYp6zG8v5JxFnjhlMglJIeC7TBodEp-vDs&s=kUmY9mIyddQ63ENEZuKoOu6lt69B34b99ZrNDuvp0Gg&e= >> : Berkeley, CA, USA >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__beowulf.org_cgi-2Dbin_mailman_listinfo_beowulf&d=DwIGaQ&c=D7ByGjS34AllFgecYw0iC6Zq7qlm8uclZFI0SqQnqBo&r=gSesY1AbeTURZwExR_OGFZlp9YUzrLWyYpGmwAw4Q50&m=L2F-vmUIThYp6zG8v5JxFnjhlMglJIeC7TBodEp-vDs&s=CT2CTzmmaUN6P4JfeJHcrTzW8tJ1_AN7y75sO6C45h8&e= >> > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__beowulf.org_cgi-2Dbin_mailman_listinfo_beowulf&d=DwIGaQ&c=D7ByGjS34AllFgecYw0iC6Zq7qlm8uclZFI0SqQnqBo&r=gSesY1AbeTURZwExR_OGFZlp9YUzrLWyYpGmwAw4Q50&m=L2F-vmUIThYp6zG8v5JxFnjhlMglJIeC7TBodEp-vDs&s=CT2CTzmmaUN6P4JfeJHcrTzW8tJ1_AN7y75sO6C45h8&e= > -- The Wellcome Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
