Comments on: The Founder Of CentOS Is Building The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/18/why-the-founder-of-centos-is-building-the-next-platform/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:31:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Miu Ling https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/18/why-the-founder-of-centos-is-building-the-next-platform/#comment-162055 Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:31:54 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137917#comment-162055 As much as I applaud his efforts, I fully expect IBM to legally block this effort at some point in the future. Nothing redhat is safe or foss at this point.

]]> By: Miu Ling https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/18/why-the-founder-of-centos-is-building-the-next-platform/#comment-162054 Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:30:41 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137917#comment-162054 In reply to Peter Meier.

I didn’t know IBM was making it’s employees SKOM publicly. Sad.

]]> By: Matt Wilder https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/18/why-the-founder-of-centos-is-building-the-next-platform/#comment-160440 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:48:06 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137917#comment-160440 If he wants this new architecture to take off and not be just yet-another-enterprise-cloud, the “how open” question isn’t a question at all. It must be a fully open cncf project. Make money through enterprise support like red hat does with RHEL

]]> By: Friar Tux https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/18/why-the-founder-of-centos-is-building-the-next-platform/#comment-160415 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:57:37 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137917#comment-160415 What the article meant by “defunct and dead” is the CentOS IS actually defunct and dead. CentOS Stream is NOT the stable CentOS that most users want. It is rolling, and rolling, as we all know has never been stable enough to use long term on servers. We used the original CentOS because, once set up, it was worry-free and relatively maintenance-free. I will definitely be switching to Rocky Linux (or one of the other distros coming out to replace CentOS). Personally, I believe RHEL just stabbed us all in the back for the sake of more money. (Though I also believe the true culprit, here, is IBM.)

]]> By: M Segel https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/18/why-the-founder-of-centos-is-building-the-next-platform/#comment-160378 Mon, 22 Feb 2021 20:55:52 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137917#comment-160378 I have to agree w Peter, however I think that the point is that what’s next on the horizion since CENTOS has no future.

So all of those who wanted something close to RH without paying for support… they need to look at something else.

Rocky seems interesting.

]]> By: Peter Meier https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/18/why-the-founder-of-centos-is-building-the-next-platform/#comment-160288 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 07:03:09 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137917#comment-160288 CentOS is neither defunct nor doesn’t it exist anymore. What stops at the end of 2021 is CentOS Linux 8 being further populated with content, thus now RPMs will be rebuilt anymore. CentOS Linux 8 is still working until then and CentOS Linux 7 continues to be available until 2024.
The next platform for CentOS users is CentOS Streams, available since over a year for version 8, soon kicking of with version 9. What changes with stream is how the binary rebuilds are being produced and made available. Additionally, it allow users to contribute.
There is already great interest of companies like Facebook & Twitter to push interesting features with Stream.

So this is far from what this article tries to suggest (defunct & dead). Unfortunate, because otherwise it has interesting content. Hopefully, that part is closer to the truth than the CentOS bits.

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