[CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

Wed Dec 9 15:59:33 UTC 2020
mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Oh, that's right, it's 2020, the dumpster fire of a year.

On 12/9/20 4:40 AM, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote:
> 
> 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.
<snip>>
>> 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.
>>
> 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.
> 
Retired sr. Linux admin here also, also running CentOS at home. Moved to 
7 this past summer (really dislike sstemd, hung onto 6 as long as possible).

What I find outright offensive is that I see someone posted the specs 
for the Board... and #2 was "community outreach".

Can someone point me to a post, ONE SINGLE POST, before this 
announcement, saying that this was being considered? That this might 
possibly happen?

Show me that this was not just presented to the community as a fait 
accompli, non-negotiable.

	mark