On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 04:25:54PM +0000, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > Hi all, > > maybe you already have heard it, CentOS is basically dead now. It used to be > an exact RHEL clone, but now it's kind of an RHEL beta [1]. > > Now what does that have to do with Debian? > > When we look into why people use CentOS, the reason is pretty simple: it is > (or was) binary-compatible with RHEL, just without the support [2]. > I was reading comments from people that use RHEL on their production, but > CentOS at home or for testing, because you don't need to pay for it. > These use cases now don't work anymore, forcing them into either paying for > RHEL, or moving to a different ecosystem. >...
You miss that Ubuntu is already both RHEL and CentOS. The reason why CentOS existed at all is explained at Wikipedia: RHEL is available only through a paid subscription service or for development use in a non-production environment A CentOS-like identical rebuild of Ubuntu would be exactly the same[1] as what you can already download free of charge and without restrictions from every Ubuntu mirror. > - Stephan >... cu Adrian [1] except for branding and signing differences
