So no more CentOS LTS releases? The article's author is right: this is definitely going to move people to Ubuntu Server LTS because RHEL isn't exactly cheap.
...as in Oracle, who would like nothing more than to become "free RHEL" in their place, complete with the ability to add support later. This is a very bad move.
I haven't had a whole lot of dealing with Oracle. Is Oracle the bad part of the move (I know they are a big player, are they as evil as or perhaps more evil than RedHat?)? Or just a bad move for RedHat, dropping something that still has a following, and then potentially facing competition?
I'm just surprised to hear as relatable a name as CentOS loosing support.
You would think having people living within your ecosystem would be a good thing, paying or not. Because if they are in your ecosystem, they aren't in the competition's.
For the regular guy,;I imagine (perhaps naively) that some entity will end up picking up the slack. Perhaps a fork in some way, you know how we saw Ubuntu come based on Debian, and then Mint coming based on Ubuntu. It might not look exactly the same, but perhaps it will be enough? Perhaps in some way it will bet better, even if diverging from the mainstream path?
So no more CentOS Long-Term Support (Score:5, Interesting)
So no more CentOS LTS releases? The article's author is right: this is definitely going to move people to Ubuntu Server LTS because RHEL isn't exactly cheap.
Or... make us weak for the "Big O" (Score:2)
Re:Or... make us weak for the "Big O" (Score:2)
I haven't had a whole lot of dealing with Oracle. Is Oracle the bad part of the move (I know they are a big player, are they as evil as or perhaps more evil than RedHat?)? Or just a bad move for RedHat, dropping something that still has a following, and then potentially facing competition?
I'm just surprised to hear as relatable a name as CentOS loosing support.
You would think having people living within your ecosystem would be a good thing, paying or not. Because if they are in your ecosystem, they aren't in the competition's.
For the regular guy,;I imagine (perhaps naively) that some entity will end up picking up the slack. Perhaps a fork in some way, you know how we saw Ubuntu come based on Debian, and then Mint coming based on Ubuntu. It might not look exactly the same, but perhaps it will be enough? Perhaps in some way it will bet better, even if diverging from the mainstream path?
I dunno, interesting times!
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> For the regular guy,;I imagine (perhaps naively) that some entity will end up picking up the slack
--I KNEW it was a bad idea for Scientific Linux to stop their fork awhile back...