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

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 10:59 AM mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> 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
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Hear! HEAR!

NOBODY asked.


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