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Anonymous
(Dec 8,2020) CentOS, which has been a “10yr LongTermSupport” operating system downstream from RHEL
will become the equivalent of “debian sid” ~~ a rolling, beta release, upstream of Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linuxhttps://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/
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unhappyraging comments within the linked page, Gregory Kurtzer’s (original founder of CentOS) reactionary comment states “I am considering creating another rebuild of RHEL”
christophe
HA! He should do it. Then sell it to IBM. Then make another….
confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019
reddit topic (started 1 day ago, 78 posts so far):
Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux now that CentOS has shifted direction – CentOS founder Gregory Kurtzer to start new rebuild of RHELreddit topic (100+ posts):
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kags8n/centos_linux_is_deadand_red_hat_says_stream_is/hackerNews topic (125+ posts):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25373478
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-shifts-from-red-hat-unbranded-to-red-hat-beta/hackerNews topic (50+ posts):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25371820
https://fosspost.org/centos-project-suicide/TheRegister article (20+ comments):
Rocky Linux is go: CentOS founder’s new project aims to be 100% compatible with Red Hat Enterprise LinuxhackerNews topic (150+ posts):
A Brief Goodbye to CentOSchristophe
I feel bad for the people who had planned on the LTS, but now it’s been taken away. I’m just a hobbyist, but I think security updates for 10 years sounds pretty good.
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