Well, from a business-IT perspective, I don’t consider CentOS-Stream to be in the same support+stability category as RHEL/Legacy-CentOS. I see it more like a Fedora. What has always comforted me with choosing to deploy CentOS in enterprise-level, commercial environments was its 100% lock-step compatibility with RHEL (well, most of the time anyways), and this included CentOS’s RHEL LTS aspects. With CentOS-Stream, that assurance (for me at least) no longer exists. Sure, I can have clients spring for RHEL. But a free 100% RHEL CentOS also enabled * millions * of VPS, and all sorts of other considerable efforts, to deploy CentOS at their core with genuine commercial confidence. But no more. This is why I’m totally rooting for Alma and Rocky, but they are not without some inherent risk exposure. At the end of the day, we’re each at least entitled to our own opinion, right? :) Sent from <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> Mail for Windows From: <mailto:[email protected]> Kent Perrier Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 12:18 PM To: <mailto:[email protected]> nlug-talk Subject: Re: [nlug] CentOS replacement?OpenSUSE? Ubu20?Why use srpms when you have acces to the git repo? https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 11:44 AM Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > In theory (litigated, or not), yes. But, should IBM cut off access to the > SRPMS, whose got the money to take them to court over it? Very few other > commercial entities out there depend on Red Hat’s SRPMS, so there’d likely > be little incentive to lay down the consider costs to go after them. > Without those SRPMS, maintaining a free Rocky or Alma (or even having a > CentOS in the first place) would be next to impossible, at least in the > sense of mirroring RHEL. Funny how this aspect is often glazed over. Red > Hat could also share source in a way that makes it much more painful to > even bother with it. > > > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows > > > > *From: *Kent Perrier <[email protected]> > *Sent: *Tuesday, October 19, 2021 8:54 AM > *To: *nlug-talk <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [nlug] CentOS replacement?OpenSUSE? Ubu20? > > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 6:43 AM Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And, of course, I can’t help but wonder if it will it eventually get >> “CentOS’d(ead)” 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2B6_KC96vxbwd_TgNHctyuFfvTyTSBUcG0AL2Yem%3D5guZKtYxw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > -- > 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/32768296.117329.1634661845701.JavaMail.zimbra%40mail.jobsoft.net > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/32768296.117329.1634661845701.JavaMail.zimbra%40mail.jobsoft.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- 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_KC_LdPSsNE3egJbeTmaEWVfoL7fgK%2B5o8d6SaQcs22ZS-A%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/918717943.117535.1634665211386.JavaMail.zimbra%40mail.jobsoft.net.
