Yeah - leave it up to Big Blue to ruin everything. But, really, Steve - just migrate to Stream. You probably won't even realize the difference.
https://twitter.com/carlwgeorge/status/1336901625290625024 On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:40 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > I guess it would have been naïve of us all to expect no change when IBM > acquired RedHat. > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Steve Jones > *Sent:* Friday, December 11, 2020 11:58 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Centos is dead? > > > > Holy shit, I just took a cursory look at redhat pricing. Starts at 350 a > year per server, physical server only, and not intended for production use. > 2500 a year for the data center if I read it right > > > > I run webmin to manage package updates and BIND. If I'm reading correctly > ubuntu isnt terrible, just less security patched since it's all opensource > and not subsidized by a big dog like red hat. Probably doable, but no yum. > > > > Has something like this happenned with centos historically? I assume the > linux community will bring about a comparable solution or resolution. > > > > This just stinks, I had my centos process down. > > > > Is this end of life like a microst end of life where they just keep > patching and saying they mean it this time for years? > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 11:28 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > Supposedly there will be CentOS Stream? Kind of like RHEL beta instead of > RHEL day old bread. I guess their answer would be if you are using it in a > production environment you could always pay for RHEL. Or there’s Fedora. > I believe Preseem runs on Fedora. > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Mike Hammett > *Sent:* Friday, December 11, 2020 10:19 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Centos is dead? > > > > Debian is like Ubuntu ,only better. ;-) > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > > *From: *"Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> > *Sent: *Friday, December 11, 2020 5:12:13 PM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Centos is dead? > > I've been a peasant my whole life, is there any other way? > > I think powercode is ubuntu now, so I'll probably go that route, are there > major differences to it? > > I dont like saying ubuntu, too much like ubnt > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 3:47 PM Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote: > > On 12/11/20 13:21, Steve Jones wrote: > > Am I reading all this right? Redhat officially killed centos and its > > tombstoned in 2021? > > > > Everything I run is centos. It's not like I know centos but I have my > > resource sets on where to go to resolve anything that pops up. > > > > Is this just a normal thing in the linux world where something is ended > > but actually just rebrands and keeps going or is it a legit end of the > OS? > > > It happens. Someone will probably fork it and make up a new distro if > that hasn't happened already. IMO the main reason to use CentOS was > because it was rebuilt RHEL. > > I gave up on Red Hat about two releases into Fedora Core when it became > obvious it was just rapidly changing garbage for testing on the peasants > before bringing fixes into their commercial version. > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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