Posts by eddymac

CentOS project changes focus, no more rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux – you'll have to flow with the Stream

Someone already has - Rocky Linux

Someone already has - Rocky Linux

https://github.com/hpcng/rocky

Re: Erm ...

Where I have been involved with a company that deploys RHEL, it has been more about certification rather than actual support, though our customers seemed to think it was about support (who were we to disagree?). If this (the certification) is the reason for RHEL subscriptions, then CENTOS were not costing IBM/RH a penny. However, removing the current CENTOS-as-a-mirrotr-of-RHEL distro will mean less expertise in the technology out there which will raise the entry barrier to RH subscriptions.

RHEL subscriptions are going to suffer because of this

A small startup is unlikely to license RHEL servers for tasks. The real choice in that scenario is a Debian Stable based distro (including Ubuntu LTS Server) , or Centos. The advantage of Centos is that it is enterprise proven. Deploying it means the admins get used to dnf/yum, rpm and all RedHat quirks, so RedHat benefits from that. If the company wants RHEL support it is a small skip and a jump to RedHat Enterprise Linux.

If this is IBM driven, they are making a big mistake, and IBM should know better. The reason why they went into Linux in the first place (in the 90s) was that their customers Sys Admins ran Linux boxes, and more or less requested IBM do so. To ignore them now is stupid.