On 12/11/20 2:02 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 6:43 AM Louis Lagendijk <louis at fazant.net> wrote: >> On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 20:02 -0500, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS-devel >> wrote: >>> >>> What's not nice is that CentOS community will inevitably be >>> disrupted >>> and dispersed. >>> >>> Unless the RH announcement was a shortsighted and dumb sacrifice to >>> Money, I assume they just brush away what they consider "unnecessary >>> expenses". In any case, I continue to evangelize open source, Linux >>> included, it's just CentOS and RH that won't be promoted (by me) any >>> more. >>> >> I interpret the Centos change of direction as indicative of the change >> in direction for RedHat: RHEL has become much less important as IBM >> focuses on web applications, cloud tooling etc. That is where the money >> is and that is what they bought RedHat for. So RHEL has to optimize OS >> costs as is it no longer key. So it is only logical to optimize the >> development process and outsource some of the testing to the public in >> Centos Stream, and not waste resources on a true free competitor for >> RHEL. >> >> Now For Stream I am mainly worried about 2 things: >> 1 - the kernel and its impact on drivers from Elrepo and other external >> repos (OpenZFS!). Not important for RHEL, but important for people that >> use old hardware that requires drivers not in RHEL. > Others have expressed this concern, and it's a good one. It would be > interesting to see if someone could create a CentOS Stream SIG that > did automated rebuilds of those drivers with every Stream kernel > update. The whole idea ( ok, maybe not the whole but certainly one of the most important ideas ) behind ELRepo packages is to take advantage ( as much as possible ) of the weak-modules mechanism and _not_ rebuild the drivers at each kernel update :)