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The Red Hat retail to Enterprise shift still leaves a little bitter taste in my mouth. I remember when they shut down public access to the rhel binaries and th
by throw7 10y ago
The Red Hat retail to Enterprise shift still leaves a little bitter taste in my mouth. I remember when they shut down public access to the rhel binaries and the beginnings of Centos. All legit to the letter of the license and no more.
I get it though. Anyone know how Centos under Red Hat is nowadays?
- rayvd 10y agoStill thriving, to my knowledge. Scientific Linux is also out there as well. My recollection is that Red Hat was actually working directly w/ CentOS on some things to streamline their build processes. Red Hat doesn't see CentOS as a threat (as it did OEL).
- Fomite 10y agoI've been quite happy with Scientific Linux.
- snuxoll 10y ago> Red Hat doesn't see CentOS as a threat (as it did OEL). Quite honestly I wonder if this was a big motivator for them to take CentOS under their wing. Why go with the totally unaffiliated community distribution when you can go with Oracle for free (somehow)? I've been using CentOS for some time now, and have never been happier as the release cadence has only gotten better since RH started supporting the project directly. There's no real reason I'd even consider Oracle Linux at this point as a result, considering neither comes with commercial support without purchasing a paid support subscription.
- SEJeff 10y agoBetter staffed and as healthy as ever. Also, Karanbir, the guy who runs CentOS and always has, seems a bit less stressed out. Notice how the release cadence and security updates in CentOS have increased in release speed massively. It was probably the best thing to happen to CentOS provided RedHat will continue letting them be an independent distribution.
- jaboutboul 10y agoRed Hat still releases the source RPMs which allow CentOS to build the distribution. No, they aren't giving straight binaries, but it's not totally necessary as long as you have the pieces you need to build them.