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 uptim
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 uptim
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This will mean I finally completely take the plunge debian/ubuntu all the way. Plus my play stuff
Re:So no more CentOS Long-Term Support (Score:2)
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