Re: End of CentOS

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 04:06:17PM -0600, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> I’m just curious what everyone’s thoughts are on the end of CentOS as we know it and the end of support for CentOS 8 next year. Is anyone planning to shift testing onto Oracle Linux, or even Ubuntu Server? I think I might give FreeBSD a spin for a while to learn something else. 

We had a long talk about this at the last meeting.

IMHO, the CentOS Stream thing should be a non-event for most people.
People who are current CentOS users should be able to switch over to the
CentOS Stream repos without noticing a difference.

The primary problem here was messaging.  The change was *very* poorly
communicated and set off a lot of unnecessary panic.

For the few people that really need strict RHEL compatibility (for
building/testing software targeted for RHEL, for example, which happens
to be my primary problem), there is a rumor that Red Hat is going to
make RHEL more readily available.  Otherwise, by the time it's a
problem, Rocky Linux and CloudLinux should be available, and Oracle
Linux is technically an option.

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