And supposedly Oracle (š«) Linux bills itself as a CentOS fill in. I temporarily started down the path of CentOS 7 since it's supported for another couple of years. I'll look more into what I can contribute with my beginner skills, which brings me to another NLUG related topic that I'll post separately some time.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 8:47 AM Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]> wrote: > None, right now. But the way these community projects usually get > killed is through the lack of resources, be it computing power, > storage, volunteer time, etc. A company comes in and provides those > resources -- for some sort of consideration, and over time, it takes > over, because they have the resources the project needs. > > That's what happened to CentOS, and it will likely happen to Rocky > Linux, too. Not immediately, of course, but over time. It may get 5 > or 10 years, before being subsumed -- and perhaps the next company > will also be bought out by IBM and merged into Red Hat. > > If you want the project to keep going, your best bet is to contribute > on an ongoing basis, either with money or your time. Packages need to > be maintained (usually by scripting the replacement of Red Hat > trademarks with community terms), and packages need to be rebuilt > using computing resources. Commit some community effort into keeping > it going, and you'll in turn ensure that the community project won't > need outside resources by a business which might eventually take over. > Money is also needed to pay for things like bandwidth, storage, and > potentially dedicated machine(s) for the project. > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 8:24 AM Kent Perrier <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 6:43 AM Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> And, of course, I canāt help but wonder if it will it eventually get > āCentOSād(ead)ā by IBM as well. > > > > > > What influence does IBM have over Rocky Linux to kill it? All of the > RHEL code is GPL, Rocky (and Alma) will always have access to it. > > > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2B6_KC96vxbwd_TgNHctyuFfvTyTSBUcG0AL2Yem%3D5guZKtYxw%40mail.gmail.com > . > > > > -- > Tilghman > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAHPkZcWb%3D%3DT%2BO27mQz_Mwq%2BNqshyeoQ7AS3obo2NC47Notyq5w%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CALdmzXb_nE5PngtnY4Mbj5G%2B%3D%3D%2BhDEAhfe%3DE_ZGGYibgJdX95A%40mail.gmail.com.
