Telling me #fedora is not dead is like telling me #centos isn't dead. Yes, technically they're not dead, not officially. #ibm wants everyone to buy #rhel subs. Of course IBM managers have NO CLUE WHAT THEY ARE DOING!!! That's why Jim AllowHurst left.

#redhat : we built #rhel and #fedora ... #ibm : we destroyed/scuttled #fedora community and killed our own #centos http://techrights.org/2021/08/20/we-build-fedora-and-then-ibm-blacklists-us/

Imperialistic Blacklist Machines: Racist IBM and Red Hat -- Just Like Donald Trump -- Have Turned Fedora Into an Utterly Racist Project That Blacklists, Shuns and Permanently Bans People Based on Their Nationality Alone

The ethnic-cleansing IBM has brought overt racism to Free software, showing that nothing has truly changed since its dark past with Nazi Germany (or the Nazi Party) as its second-largest client; all that changed — however slightly — is the...

#RHEL Clones: #CentOS Latest and AlmaLinux Foundation • 𝖳𝗎𝗑 𝖬𝖺𝖼𝗁𝗂𝗇𝖾𝗌 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/156472 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines

Jakub Kadlčík: Building #RHEL packages with Tito http://frostyx.cz/posts/building-rhel-packages-with-tito #gnu #linux

Building RHEL packages with Tito

Are you a Fedora packager and consider Tito to be a valuable asset in your toolbox? Do you know it can be used for maintaining RHEL packages as well? Or any downstream packaging? I didn’t. This article explains how it can be done.

StatusQuo CentOS 8

Schöne Zusammefassung zum StatusQuo beim Support von #CentOS 8. Bis Ende des Jahres muss da eine Einscheidung her - welche auch immer.

Ich bin jetzt schon seit einem Jahr auf #CentOS-Stream und schätze, dass ich dabei bleiben werde - trotz der Befürchtungen zuvor.

#RHEL #RockyLinux #AlmaLinux #NavyLinux #OracleLinux #FrosCon #GNU/Linux #PoweredByRSS

https://mirror.selfnet.de/CCC/events/froscon/2021/h264-hd/froscon2021-2643-deu-CentOS_ist_tot_lang_lebe_CentOS_hd.mp4

Someone should explain to #zdnet SJVN that CentOS is a clone of #RHEL so saying "CentOS clone Rocky Linux" shows poor understanding of what #RockyLinux is or how those things are put together. Rocky does what CentOS used to do before racist #IBM bagged #RedHat

SJVN calls #rockylinux a clone of #centos but CentOS itself is a clone. Of #RHEL ... a senior moment?

#ibm has made a mess of #centos and it is NOT going to help #redhat or #rhel - QUITE THE CONTRARY http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2021/09/how-to-clone-lot-of-package-spec-files.html

#RHEL, CentOS and their clones: the best alternatives • 𝓣𝓾𝔁 𝓜𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/155042 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines

#redhat to #ibm : we killed off some clones of #rhel like #scientificLinux and bought to control the main one, which we can now squander and squash. How much will you pay us for this vendor lock-in with #systemd etc?

#poland -based #rhel clone #EuroLinux 8.4 is out http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/154701/ #gnu #linux

#FlashGrid announces support for #RHEL 8 and #Oracle #Linux 8 https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/flashgrid-announces-support-for-rhel-8-and-oracle-linux-8-301346082.html

he 4 Best #RHEL -Based Alternatives to #CentOS and More #RedHat News • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/153560 #IBM #TuxMachines

The 4 Best RHEL-Based Alternatives to #CentOS https://www.makeuseof.com/best-centos-alternatives/ #ibm #redhat #rhel

The 4 Best RHEL-Based Alternatives to CentOS

Now that CentOS is gone, you should make a switch to some other OS. Check out these four RHEL-based CentOS alternatives.

#redhat / #ibm sees academic institutions fleeing #centos for something IBM does not control, possibly not even #rhel based http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/153543#comment-30320

#ibm is still bruised by what it did to #redhat and #rhel ... when it decided to kill off #centos and merely sent people away from RHEL base https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/expanding-red-hat-enterprise-linux-choices-research-and-academia

Expanding Red Hat Enterprise Linux choices for research and academia

The adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) by governments, businesses and nonprofit organizations across the globe, has led to RHEL being the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform and helps demonstrate our belief that it provides the best...

Let's discuss the CentOS change

I have used Debian and Ubuntu for most of my Linux based projects but a few of them do use CentOS, like FreePBX, and there are a few projects I will be working on soon that have historically relied on CentOS.
One of the big draws to CentOS was the longevity of a release, one of the reasons I like Debian and Ubuntu LTS releases. This stability looks to be done away with by the change to CentOS Stream, which looks to be a way to try and push more users to RHEL.
Now we are in a grey area as CentOS 8 will be EOL by the end of 2021 but CentOS 7 will continue to be supported until 2024.

This leaves me curious about what others are thinking/planning when starting new projects this year that would have used CentOS:
* Will you install CentOS 7 and run on that until a viable fork comes to life
* Would this be your time to choose a different distribution altogether
* Is there an argument for running on CentOS 8 and planning to migrate once the updates stop

Don't leave this to my bullet points. If you have more input I think this would be a great platform for this discussion.

#linux #centos #centos-stream #redhat #rhel #fedora