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.
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.
This seems like a good way to shrink the user base of RHEL in general. Without the entry level CentOS, there will be fewer customers willing to shell out the cash for RHEL.
Exactly. Running CentOS gave you a trivial upgrade path to RHEL when you needed/wanted support. It also exposed people to the RHEL ecosystem which is significantly different from Debian / Ubuntu. This will no doubt decrease their market share over time.
Yup, I wonder what this will do to shift the market in 5-10 years. I started with Red Hat because it was free and available (back in the RH 5 days, pre-Fedora), just without updates, but back then that wasn't a big deal with security as it was already secure enough. Post RH9 I moved to Fedora (Core at the time), and then happily embraced CentOS when it was available for longer life than Fedora. Great for long-term server stuff. I've got some locked down CentOS5 and CentOS6 servers, with multi-year uptime (why reboot if there aren't updates?) still running just fine in relative isolation.
These days, I support RHEL/CentOS professionally and have for about 15 years. It just works, and vs. Windows the stability is huge.
But for my desktop I decided to go Ubuntu when CentOS5 was going EOL. For my laptop I decided to go Linux Mint now that CentOS6 has gone EOL. Very happy with both.
I still know and support the EL environment, but for my own personal servers, I'll probably just roll with a Debian-based version now that I know it well enough. Still not to the level of EL, which I learned just about every nook and cranny over the years, but more and more EL and Debian are looking not too different to me, other than specific differences in dnf (fka yum) and apt.
pretty similar path here. Have used/supported CentOS for years because of the path to Redhat(which I picked up in the mid 90s) but had already started moving to Debian and Ubuntu, have been running 20.04 LTS on all my workstations with kubuntu since it rolled out.
This will mean I finally completely take the plunge debian/ubuntu all the way. Plus my play stuff;)
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.
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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.
This seems like a good way to shrink the user base of RHEL in general. Without the entry level CentOS, there will be fewer customers willing to shell out the cash for RHEL.
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Exactly. Running CentOS gave you a trivial upgrade path to RHEL when you needed/wanted support. It also exposed people to the RHEL ecosystem which is significantly different from Debian / Ubuntu. This will no doubt decrease their market share over time.
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Yup, I wonder what this will do to shift the market in 5-10 years. I started with Red Hat because it was free and available (back in the RH 5 days, pre-Fedora), just without updates, but back then that wasn't a big deal with security as it was already secure enough. Post RH9 I moved to Fedora (Core at the time), and then happily embraced CentOS when it was available for longer life than Fedora. Great for long-term server stuff. I've got some locked down CentOS5 and CentOS6 servers, with multi-year uptime (why reboot if there aren't updates?) still running just fine in relative isolation.
These days, I support RHEL/CentOS professionally and have for about 15 years. It just works, and vs. Windows the stability is huge.
But for my desktop I decided to go Ubuntu when CentOS5 was going EOL. For my laptop I decided to go Linux Mint now that CentOS6 has gone EOL. Very happy with both.
I still know and support the EL environment, but for my own personal servers, I'll probably just roll with a Debian-based version now that I know it well enough. Still not to the level of EL, which I learned just about every nook and cranny over the years, but more and more EL and Debian are looking not too different to me, other than specific differences in dnf (fka yum) and apt.
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This will mean I finally completely take the plunge debian/ubuntu all the way. Plus my play stuff
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