[CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

Mon Dec 14 15:09:59 UTC 2020
Konstantin Boyandin <lists at boyandin.info>

On 14.12.2020 21:41, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Le 14/12/2020 à 15:25, James Pearson a écrit :
>> As others have said, it misses the _really_ important bit about the
>> traditional CentOS model which is to follow the RHEL ~10 year life cycle
> 
> I totally agree with you.
> 
> But when you disagree with someone (e.g. the CentOS team), it's good at
 least
> to hear the person out.
> 
> Back at the university here in Montpellier, we had a funny exercise in one
 of
> the courses. Every one of us had to pick a subject where he or she had a
 strong
> position. I remember I chose nuclear energy, which I think is a bad
 choice. And
> in the exercise, I had to *defend* nuclear energy against its opponents.
> 
> And I published the link to the article because it's a fine text and
 nicely
> argumented.

Well, it's mostly emotional (the leitmotif: "how can you say CentOS 
Stream is bad if you didn't try it?"). And the author's bio spoils the 
fun, as well:

"Ben Porter is a Linux and open source advocate, currently working as an 
OpenShift consultant for Red Hat."

And the comments to the graphs, where RHEL, CentOS and Fedora are placed 
on a line, are simply ridiculous (such as "did you use to consider RHEL 
to be the CentOS beta?"). With all due respect to Ben Porter, it didn't 
convince me.

-- 
Sincerely,

Konstantin Boyandin
system administrator (ProWide Labs Ltd. - IPHost Network Monitor)