> > Gregory Kurtzer says: > December 8, 2020 at 4:27 pm > <https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/#comment-183642>I > am considering creating another rebuild of RHEL and may even be able to > hire some people for this effort. If you are interested in helping, please > join the HPCng slack (link on the website hpcng.org). > Greg > (original founder of CentOS)
Has Redhat changed anything in RHEL8 to prevent another CentOS from sprouting? On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 3:14 PM Ryan Novosielski <novos...@rutgers.edu> wrote: > 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. > > -- > #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 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 > > > > -- > > Prentice Bisbal > > Lead Software Engineer > > Research Computing > > Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory > > http://www.pppl.gov > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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