On 4/27/21 8:39 AM, Carlos Oliva wrote: > Thank you for your response Martin. We should probably consider moving > to the alternatives that you mentioned or Ubuntu. Centos was no longer a > Community effort after RH was bought by a propriatory company. > "Proprietary company" sounds like a nonsense. All companies do work for profit. This is true about current owner of RedHat, as well as it was true about RedHat as a company before it was sold to current owner. The moment CentOS team started being paid by RedHat (long before RedHat was bought by current owner) was the moment _I_ should have told myself about CentOS "this now will not last long". Luckily for me I already fled my servers to FreeBSD, - from Linux in general, not from CentOS in particular. But that is long different story. Just my $0.02 Valeri > On 4/27/2021 9:05 AM, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: >> Not just rumours. CentOS 8 dies at the end of this year. CentOS 7 >> has until the end of 2024. RH are introducing "CentOS Stream" which >> is what will be in RHEL in the next release. It has been unkindly >> referred to as beta software. >> >> The traditional rebuild of RHEL will continue under other guises. >> There has been a long standing release at Springdale. Since RH's >> announcement Cloud have produced the Alma release. There is also a >> new project called Rocky that hasn't yet released a full version but >> is working on it. >> >> On 27/04/2021 13:46, Carlos Oliva wrote: >>> Will there be newer versions of Centos? We have heard rumors that >>> version 8 will be the last one. We are concerned with using an OS >>> that will loose support in the future. Thank you. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++