[CentOS-mirror] Removal of mirror.alpha-labs.net

>> as CentOS is now a complete and utter piece of garbage
>>
>> I am no longer willing to give then any of my resources.
>> Please remove mirror.alpha-labs.net from any and all servers.
> Hi Christian,
> I can understand frustration and so why you reacted like you did.
> My only message would be actually : "Don't shoot the messenger [TM]" ... :/
> Let me just (if you permit it) slightly disagree with your "CentOS is now a complete and utter piece of garbage"  : CentOS Linux itself hasn't changed and will remain so still need a mirror network, etc .. But probably not worth discussing on the list as myself I'd like to wait some days to publicly say what I think of all this.
>Anyway, let me thank you for having been part of the wide CentOS mirror network in the last years, as you helped people using CentOS
> I've removed your mirror from our crawler DB and so shouldn't be "crawled/validated" anymore
>Kind Regards,
>Fabian Arrotin

Hello Fabian and Christian, hello List,

I do not think that CentOS is garbage now, but it is going to be unusable for (pre)production very soon.

From my point it is annoying that we now have to downgrade to 7 after going from 6 to 8. For people parallely using RHEL this is the moment where you pay really a lot of money to Redhat or kick out RHEL and CentOS completely in your long-term-plans for a time beyond 2021.

We are not taking our mirror down (yet). But there is no reason to keep it up longer than needed for a project that lost its significance.

I am "not amused" that CentOS stops to be what it once was: "A Cent for an enterprise community OS that is widely used".

Best Regards
Christian Freund