On 12/8/20 11:19 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote:
Am I the only one to perceive CentOS/RedHat team members responses as quite arrogant?
I am sorry you feel that way. I was trying to help. Red Hat has several programs where they give away RHEL for free. CentOS Stream is free. CentOS Linux 8 is going away in at the end of 2021.
Those are facts.
He said he wanted free Linux and did not want to interact with the community. I provided all the alternatives that i know for that.
Stream, a qualified version of RHEL that can be obtained from Red Hat for free (has nothing to do with CentOS) or some other distribution.
I am not being arrogant or negative. Just pointing out facts.
I have been doing this for 17 years. I would continue doing for 17 more. But it is what it is and wishing for it to be different is not going to happen. I know .. I've tried.
Am 08.12.2020 um 18:11 schrieb Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org:
On 12/8/20 11:02 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:59 AM Rich Bowen rbowen@redhat.com wrote:
On 12/8/20 11:29 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
I see a lot of promises that Stream will have better engagement with the community. Why would we trust these promises?
"Better engagement with the community" of course requires that the community step up and engage. Trust isn't something anyone expects to just magically happen.
The whole point of CentOS was so that we didn't have to "engage." We don't have time for that.
We just want a stable re-compile of RHEL, as promised. CentOS has been diverging from this for a while (note the change in version names/numbers) and we DON'T WANT THAT!
Right, you want free RHEL .. so get in touch with Red Hat and see if you qualify for it.
Here is how you can convert:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/2360841
Or, you can see if Stream can meet your requirements of something you can just get for free.
Or, you can do something else. It is all up to you.