There's also Alma, which is where I've gone after being with CentOS since 5.3 On 07/07/2021 10:44, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > On 30/4/2021 7:27 μ.μ., Gionatan Danti wrote: > >> >> The correct answer is to buy RH: fine. But do not let Stream touch >> anything which require a kABI compatible modules. As said above, the >> Stream move is squarely addresses *cloud* vendor requests and needs. >> Again, fine. But please leave apart the RH comparison, this is not >> going to help Stream. >> >> Again, don't let me wrong: I wishes the best to Stream, and I will use >> it where appropriate. But "where" is much smaller today than >> yesterday. But this aside, I really thank you all CentOS maintainer >> for your monumental work, and I really hope Stream will be a success. > > I re-visit this thread, since it is crucial for CentOS 8 users. > > RESF / Rocky Linux is gaining worldwide recognition and sets itself as > the primary organization / platform to become the CentOS 8 heir / > successor in the future. > > Google and Microsoft become RESF sponsors/partners: > > https://rockylinux.org/news/community-update-june-2021/ > > And so IBM/RH lose the tremendous advantage they had by owning the > CentOS project, which - it seems - never evaluated correctly. > > From now on, it is clear that hundreds of thousands of CentOS > installations will be migrating to Rocky Linux. > > I also wish the best of success to CentOS Stream, but this is not what > the CentOS community expected. > > My 2c. > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- J Martin Rushton MBCS