It is not surprising that IBM has taken this misguided path, they fail to understand that Enterprise users of CentOS will not simply start buying overpriced licenses for RHEL, they will bail out for Ubuntu Server. IBM’s misjudgment on this marks the beginning of the end for RHEL. Been nice to know you...
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:47 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > I've used Redhat flavor distros since the dawn of time. > I moved to Scientific Linux because of the focus on > ultra-long-term support (10y+) and extra scientific > packages. Fermilabs stopped supporting the Scientific > Linux variant, so I moved to CentOS. > > Now, with an abrupt announcement early this week, > CentOS is going away. the supposed replacement is > "CentOS Stream", which is RedHat's new name for their > upstream rolling release; the opposite of stability. > > The good news is that Greg Kurtzer (the guy who started > Caos which became CentOS) announced Rocky Linux two > days ago, and already 700+ developers have joined him. > > I expect Fermilabs and CERN and Los Alamos will also > get involved. They will not shut down the Large Hadron > Collider because RedHat/IBM are buttheads. > > Ever see the cartoon of the fellow sawing off the limb > he is sitting on, and the tree falls over instead? > I've seen this happen when large corporations throw > their weight around - the little guys join forces, > go to work, and turn out a better product/service . > The limb replaces the rotten tree. > > CERN gave us the world wide web; with their support, > great things will happen for Linux. > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- - Jake Bottero www.BotteroNet.com _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
