I don’t think that’s all that hard to answer: because it doesn’t. Who on this
list is magically going to buy hundreds of RedHat licenses because of this?
Will someone somewhere? Some folks will move to Ubuntu or a competitor, and
some will think twice about renewing an investment in RedHat without the CentOS
critical mass.
I wonder how IBM figures into this, if at all directly.
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> On Dec 8, 2020, at 1:07 PM, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf <beowulf@beowulf.org>
> wrote:
>
> Also, I'm not surprised at all by this. It seemed like it would be only a
> matter of time after RH ntook control of CentOS that they'd do something to
> stop it from competing with RHEL. Why support a free product that
> cannibalizes your commercial sales?
>
> Prentice
>
> On 12/8/20 11:27 AM, Chris Samuel 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://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/
>>
>> > 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
>
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> Research Computing
> Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
> http://www.pppl.gov
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