On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 2:46 PM david <david at daku.org> wrote: > <SNiP> > Hours of reading > </SNIP> > > > CentOS Fans: > > I've spent hours yesterday and today reading the messages about the > Centos 8 Stream, and expect to do it for the next few days also. I > would recommend that anyone contemplating some action, such as > switching to a different distribution, advising your management to > change, or similar, postpone that action for a while. Let the dust > settle, let the policy makers evaluate the comments, and watch for > clarifications and/or modifications of the plan. > > For lack of a better date, I suggest waiting until the first business > day of 2021 (Monday 04 January) before taking any significant actions. > > Personally, I've already invested some of my time incorporating > CentOS 8. I've also been working with Ubuntu since that seems to be > the only way forward with Raspberry Pi and Apple/Intel machines, but > I'll keep my CentOS 7/8 machines stable for this month at least. > > David > > Do you speak on behalf of RedHat officially? If not, I'll continue to plan to ditch them accordingly. -- *Matt Phelps* *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator* (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 60 Garden Street | MS 39 | Cambridge, MA 02138 email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook <http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook> | Twitter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter> | YouTube <http://cfa.harvard.edu/youtube> | Newsletter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/newsletter>