[CentOS-devel] Teachings of the tea

Wed Dec 23 06:30:00 UTC 2020
Thomas Stephen Lee <lee.iitb at gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 7:45 PM Jean-Marc Liger
<jean-marc.liger at parisdescartes.fr> wrote:
>
> Le 22/12/2020 à 02:18, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS-devel a écrit :
> > On 21.12.2020 19:09, Jean-Marc Liger wrote:
> >> You can try pouring tea into a cup, if it is full, the tea will flow
> >> from it. As long as Red Hat doesn't want to empty a part of the cup, all
> >> these discussions are a waste of precious time until you find another
> >> cup.
> >>
> >> Jean-Marc
> > To the best of my understanding, people involved in long threads here
> > are currently trying to justify/unjustify the switch to CentOS Stream.
> >
> > I would assume those willing to proceed with what CentOS actually was,
> > are now switching their efforts to Rocky (Lenix... add to the list if
> > necessary) or, possibly, other Linux distributions.
> >
> > Personally, I see that as simple business move to brush off those CentOS
> > community part who are neither on RH payroll, nor their paying
> > customers. That said, I just chose another direction to move to and
> > another cause to support.
> >
> I use COPR builders for CentOS Stream, they are regularly broken, so
> nothing more to say that it has to be used for playground only.
>
> Original CentOS Linux is a dead end now and I'm a pragmatism fan as all
> slavics, so I don't want to waste my time and energy for useless moves.
>
> Nevermind if it's a sad choice, but Red Had has already betrayed me two
> times, and in best effort I will progressively my servers migrate to
> Oracle Linux, first one in testing mode last week, kernels UEK are more
> up to date, MySQL is in full edition, and they have achieved a pretty
> good documentation as well.
>
> Last, if a new Community OS arise (Rocky, Lenix, back CentOS...) I'll
> will give a try and make another decision again.
>
> Jean-Marc

I have read/heard

"Change is the only thing that is constant"

We love things to stay forever but.

Thanks, Red Hat/IBM for one year to evaluate the change.

Happy Holidays 😊

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Lee