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RedHat/CentOS what have you done? its over for me

by pastyboy on 2/18/21, 9:57 AM with 1 comments

Well after carefully examining the RedHat CentOS move, it has caused me huge despair, finally dawning on me after 20 years of using RedHat derivatives, that this is a hugely damaging move by RedHat/CentOS to me personally and the technology I have invested years of time in, they have pretty much killed private infrastructure in one move.

Everyone will now be looking to evacuate CentOS, not entirely sure how independent hosting companies are going to come back from this and what their strategies will be, any ideas are welcome.

Why in the world would anyone running KVM with 100s of VMs for development, build, infrastructure want to pay RHEL(IBM) $$$$$$$$ ?

Options so far are: Oracle Linux, unashamedly copy of RHEL (The enemy (oracle) of my enemy (IBM) is my friend ? long term option ?). Rocky Linux ?? can they pull off such a massive rebuild of the CentOS model, without it being impeded by IBM (legal). Ubuntu, have used but always gone for stability and trust with CentOS, time to reconsider. Move to GCE/AWS, still cheaper than private hosting running RedHat, all they have done is destroyed private hosting and infrastructure as an option.

linux, is linux, is linux so bye, bye IBM you ain't nothing unique or special.

This https://centos.rip/# sums it up for me.

  • by kuschkufan on 2/18/21, 10:37 AM

    They were looking to monetize on the people that they perceived as locked-in into CentOS. Hoping that it would be too painful for them to switch distros and just start paying Red Hat instead to stay on CentOS.

    Maybe the best outcome would be any easy upgrade path to Rocky Linux. Rocky Linux being the best candidate for developing a community - which I perceive as most important to keep a project going and supported.