[CentOS-devel] [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 8:30 PM Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel <
centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:

> Am 08.12.20 um 23:22 schrieb Matthew Miller:
> > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 12:44:36PM -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via
> CentOS wrote:
> >>> CentOS 8's future is not looking bright. Recently deployed CentOS8 on
> my
> >>> production workload and now hearing this. What do other folks think
> >>> about this?
> >> Speaking only for myself, I am ready to give up on CentOS (and Red Hat)
> >> entirely. Fedora meets all my clients' needs with none of the chaos.
> >
> > I definitely appreciate the vote of confidence in Fedora! You're not
> alone
> > in using Fedora in a lot of serious ways.
> >
> > However, I really encourage everyone to give this a chance. This is
> > (post-Fedora) RHEL development opening up in a new way, and CentOS is
> > central to it. That's a good place to be!
> >
> >
>
> Its important to distinguish two aspects here in this whole discussion.
>
> Its great that RH opens their "firewalls". CentOS Stream is great
> for that but what actually pissed the people off is the termination
> of CentOS8 Linux. So all arguments for C8S doesn't touch the problem
> that people have now. And no - C8S is not a valid substitution. Its
> valid for a different usage scenario that is of course worth to get a
> chance but the mentioned problem don't get addressed ...
>
> __
> Leon
>

Specifically, terminating CentOS 8 Linux after vowing to support it until
May of 2029.

If they had announced this plan from the start, or if they reverse course
and announce it as of the start of CentOS 9, I'd be OK with it.


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