On 09/12/2020 09:26, centos at niob.at wrote: > On 09/12/2020 07:16, Kingsly John wrote: >> >> A non-paying CentOS user is not a real loss for RHEL. But people dumping >> CentOS for a non-RHEL clone is definitely going to impact their future >> revenues as they are losing mindshare/goodwill/easy migration etc. > > And worse: Without CentOS being used widely (junior) admins will have > even less experience dealing with RHEL. This will result in lower > quality deployments of RHEL, reducing overall security of those systems > and it will reduce RHEL adoption, hitting RH/IBM where it hurts them most. > > I am seeing this in practice already with juniors - they all use Ubuntu > on their personal systems and they hate having to deal with RHEL. And > their opinions matter in the long run. > > > peter > And exactly the same applies to senior (or retired) admins on their home computers. My main home machine runs about a dozen testbed VMs, DHCP/DNS for the home network, Amanda, NFS and Samba for other machines, ownCloud, Apache, Zotero and DokuWiki for the family. I want a stable server under that lot, not a beta release. -- J Martin Rushton MBCS