Hi;
I think another option to consider would be Oracle Linux. Consider the
following from their blog, news and website:-
*
If you are reading this blog, you are probably a CentOS user and
are in the position where you need to look at alternatives going
forward. Switching to Oracle Linux is easy.
o
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/need-a-stable%2c-rhel-compatible-alternative-to-centos-three-reasons-to-consider-oracle-linux
*
Need a stable, RHEL compatible alternative to CentOS?
o https://www.oracle.com/linux/
Another option if you're using cPanel & WHM is to most likely use them
as a good guide:-
* cPanel Support For CentOS 8 And More
o https://blog.cpanel.com/centos-8-end-of-life-announcement/
And, if you're coming from the old Cobalt Networks RaQ server era days
and/or BlueOnyx, they have a good blog, news & comments. Probably their
posture may be the best position to take when looking and/or want to
"marry" with a particular distro which had various roadmaps during their
history.
*
BlueOnyx has been available on CentOS since CentOS 5, but as the
CentOS project never was without issues and unpredictability.
Therefore we've never been fully "married" to it. It's always been
more of a matter of convenience than one of choice. We even
departed briefly from CentOS during the CentOS 6 days and favored
Scientific Linux 6 instead. Since then we kept our eyes and ears
open for alternatives and also contemplated contingencies.
* You are here: Welcome to BlueOnyx» News
CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
o
https://www.blueonyx.it/news/280/54/CentOS-Project-shifts-focus-to-CentOS-Stream/d,Simplex%20News%20Detail
Based on BlueOnyx website news, they have indicated the original founder
of CentOS is considering a possible return:-
And like mentioned above: We're not the only ones whom RedHat
pulled the rug out from under our feet.
In fact Gregory Kurtzer (co-founder of CentOS) had this to say
<https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/#comment-183642>:
I am considering creating another rebuild of RHEL and may even
be able to hire some people for this effort. If you are
interested in helping, please join the HPCng slack (link on
the website hpcng.org).
Greg (original founder of CentOS)
If you've installed and use cnMaestro and Cambium's software on CentOS,
then the impact may even be more on your operations. I am guessing
Cambium's cnMaestro may drop support for CentOS eventually.
Lincoln
On 12/12/2020 11:39 AM, Bill Prince wrote:
Mostly. IBM charges quite a bit for it, but they're big blue. Not sure
what they're getting out of their multi-billion dollar purchase, but
we would have to sit in their board room to understand their thinking.
I wouldn't be surprised to see that they are saving money by getting
all those community developers do the work for next to nothing. Sure
cuts down on the expenses in the development department.
The only real issue is which version of linux you want hook your wagon
to. I used Centos for quite a long time; mainly because it was
"enterprise". Then it go too "enterprise" for my taste, and have since
switched to Debian. It's the same, but different. Same enough for my
taste, and down-homey enough for the small operation we are.
NBD.
bp
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On 12/12/2020 8:14 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
Linux... linux is free... right?
*From:* Ken Hohhof
*Sent:* Saturday, December 12, 2020 8:39 AM
*To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Centos is dead?
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.
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Debian is like Ubuntu ,only better. ;-)
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*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.
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