There is an official blogpost about these changes on the CentOS site [1] It has been 6 years since RedHat "acquired" the CentOS project [2] and I wonder if this was in the cards since then, or if...
There is an official blogpost about these changes on the CentOS site [1]
It has been 6 years since RedHat "acquired" the CentOS project [2] and I wonder if this was in the cards since then, or if the IBM acquisition [3] drove this change. I wonder if this means that another project will simply compile the latest RedHat source code sans branding and release CentOSv2. I'm not positive I'm all that upset about this change, as long as CentOS continues to be rock solid for the majority of use cases.
On the pessimistic side, IBM has a material interest in making CentOS less reliable than RHEL, if only by the amount necessary to keep RHEL on top for business cases where stability is of the highest importance.
Per the end of this article, it's already in the works, called Rocky Linux, after one of the original founders of CentOS. Just vaporware so far, but they've just started...
I wonder if this means that another project will simply compile the latest RedHat source code sans branding and release CentOSv2.
Per the end of this article, it's already in the works, called Rocky Linux, after one of the original founders of CentOS. Just vaporware so far, but they've just started...
The article states that CentOS Stream is the development branch of RHEL, but a Redhatter on reddit paints a different picture in various comments such as this one. In particular: So I guess there...
The article states that CentOS Stream is the development branch of RHEL, but a Redhatter on reddit paints a different picture in various comments such as this one. In particular:
Very soon, changes will be required pass CI and Red Hat QA before entering Stream. The goal is to avoid regressions in Stream as far as possible. Everything we put there is going out to customers soon-ish, so of course we don't want it to be broken.
So I guess there are some changes in the pipeline that will bring CentOS Stream closer to CentOS Linux in terms of stability. It seems to me that Redhat screwed up in communicating some important info here, resulting in articles like this one suggesting that there's no sensible upgrade path for CentOS users other than to pay for RHEL or switch to another distro.
For me personally, we're on CentOS 7 at work which is supported for ~3.5 more years, so I'm happy to wait a few years to see how things shape up for Rocky Linux / Cloud Linux and CentOS Stream. At the same time, during the initial confusion and controversy surrounding this announcement, I went looking for alternatives and noticed that openSUSE has some pretty nice offerings (uyuni, openQA). So I guess I have some homework to do, and maybe we'll end up jumping ship anyway when the time comes.
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.
There is an official blogpost about these changes on the CentOS site [1]
It has been 6 years since RedHat "acquired" the CentOS project [2] and I wonder if this was in the cards since then, or if the IBM acquisition [3] drove this change. I wonder if this means that another project will simply compile the latest RedHat source code sans branding and release CentOSv2. I'm not positive I'm all that upset about this change, as long as CentOS continues to be rock solid for the majority of use cases.
On the pessimistic side, IBM has a material interest in making CentOS less reliable than RHEL, if only by the amount necessary to keep RHEL on top for business cases where stability is of the highest importance.
[1] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=future-is-centos-stream
[2] https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-centos-join-forces
[3] https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future
Per the end of this article, it's already in the works, called Rocky Linux, after one of the original founders of CentOS. Just vaporware so far, but they've just started...
The article states that CentOS Stream is the development branch of RHEL, but a Redhatter on reddit paints a different picture in various comments such as this one. In particular:
So I guess there are some changes in the pipeline that will bring CentOS Stream closer to CentOS Linux in terms of stability. It seems to me that Redhat screwed up in communicating some important info here, resulting in articles like this one suggesting that there's no sensible upgrade path for CentOS users other than to pay for RHEL or switch to another distro.
For me personally, we're on CentOS 7 at work which is supported for ~3.5 more years, so I'm happy to wait a few years to see how things shape up for Rocky Linux / Cloud Linux and CentOS Stream. At the same time, during the initial confusion and controversy surrounding this announcement, I went looking for alternatives and noticed that openSUSE has some pretty nice offerings (uyuni, openQA). So I guess I have some homework to do, and maybe we'll end up jumping ship anyway when the time comes.
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.