Hi Ron,
I wouldn't worry about it as much. Although the PR was "managed"
horribly by RedHat, in technical terms I don't think the situation is as
dire as it seems.
First of all, CentOS Stream is supported for 5 years, this is as good as
Ubuntu LTS and knowing RedHat the QA will be much better than
Canonical's. In fact, CERN deemed it good enough for their use, so if
Stream is good enough to literally split the atom, then I don't know
what other endorsement it needs.[1]
Second, there are already many RHEL clones out there, Oracle Unbreakable
Linux, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, plenty to choose from.
And if the situation is still too shaky for your boss, then you could
always go Ubuntu LTS and last, but not least Debian which is super
stable and also with 5 years life time.
[1] -
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1070475/contributions/4511844/attachments/2309304/3929738/lfc03-20210915-NoNDA.pdf
On 2021-12-16 19:36, Ron Wheeler wrote:
As a long-time Centos user, I fear that my company will have to
abandon Centos since Centos is going from a stable, tested system to a
test bed.
This is not really a good move for anyone wanting a reliable production
system.
It is hard to imaging why anyone would want Centos Steam for production
use.
Ron
On 2021-12-16 11:40, Nicolas Vazquez wrote:
Hi all,
CentOS 8 will reach EOL on 31st December this year
-https://www.centos.org/centos-linux-eol/
Opening this thread for discussion on the actions needed: should we
drop support on the next 4.16.1 release and onwards?
Regards,
Nicolas Vazquez