[CentOS] RHEL changes

Fri Jan 22 08:29:20 UTC 2021
Marc Balmer <marc at msys.ch>


> Am 22.01.2021 um 08:40 schrieb Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>:
> 
> On 1/21/21 11:40 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:36:44PM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>>> On 1/21/21 8:53 PM, Alfredo Perez wrote:
>>>> Is this good news for the "Centos" family?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> There is no CentOS "family". CentOS clone is dead and will be now
>> 
>> Odd that you say it's dead when 7 doesn't sunset until June 30th, 2024.
>> 
> 
> Maybe not best choice of the word, but I meant there will not be further
> development on that front. CentOS 7 cloning will be just rinse and
> repeat of established process. If CentOS 8 was not killed almost no one
> would have installed CentOS 7 on any new server (keeping in mind desire
> for 10-year til EOL), so I see CentOS 7 as close to EOL and his
> usefulness for new systems will only decrease.

I couldn't agree more.

> 
> Hence it is as good as dead in my mind when looking into the future, I
> am looking for future distro of choice.

A little mentioned choice would be openSUSE, which is direction I am taking.

> 
> 
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