Le 26/12/2020 à 20:09, Jean-Marc Liger a écrit : > > Le 26/12/2020 à 18:17, Mike McGrath a écrit : > >> We've been evaluating that goas for years and I (and others) are >> unconvinced why we should be doing that. None of our other products >> have a downstream build that we sponsor. What benefit does doing >> something we've already done (RHEL), and doing it again (CentOS >> Rebuild), have for Red Hat? Believe me, when I tell you we looked >> for years to find an answer to that, no one enjoyed this >> announcement. But when you look at it, CentOS Linux no longer makes >> any sense to sponsor. >> > As I said below, the idea is to produce a downtream RHEL clone, with > CentOS Stream as the continuous beta release for RHEL, and Centos > Linux the bitwise release candidate for RHEL you can last adjust with > the feedback of the CentOS community. It's a simple and valuable > answer to what you've been looking for years. > No answer again, as the end goal of this initiative is to kill CentOS Linux, maybe not to get Community money back, but surely because it reduces some RHEL sales. However this is not a Community responsibility, it is all Red Hat's fault when it bought CentOS and gave more credibility to this project without highlighting the value of RHEL over CentOS Linux. I proposed a solution for that dilemna which end all the downstream process and restored some trust we could put in Red Hat, and this advice is free of charge. >> RHEL is a downstream rebuild of Stream. Perhaps the missing piece >> you need to help isn't another rebuild, but free actual RHEL? And what should be the terms of this free actual RHEL we could be helpfull for ? > What I need is a free RHEL clone for educational purposes, with no > subscription and no restrictive contract terms to deal with. > > Right now the winner of your fantastical move is Oracle Linux, that > fewbody knows before. Every day there is another IT website to explain > how easy it is to move from CentOS to Oracle Linux 8. And Project > Lenix and Rocky Linux will also succeded in this trifecta order. And > in the end you will loose both the value of the CentOS Brand and > Community. Is this the big deal Red Hat want to achieve? > > Jean-Marc > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20201227/eb0c3abc/attachment-0005.html>