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CentOS was supposed to be a community project supported by Red Hat. They appointed themselves to the 'governance board' and never held a single election, not e
by linuxftw 6y ago
CentOS was supposed to be a community project supported by Red Hat. They appointed themselves to the 'governance board' and never held a single election, not even one seat, to represent the 'community.' Then, they made this decision behind closed doors, rather than at least have a public discussion period.
The community response is in no way FUD. They took a project, killed it, and expect you to like whatever rolling alpha they pretend is it's replacement.
- usefulcat 6y agoRH CTO Chris Wright: "CentOS Stream isn’t a replacement for CentOS Linux; rather, it’s a natural, inevitable next step intended to fulfill the project’s goal of furthering enterprise Linux innovation."
- salamanderman 6y agoSo, the "goal" of CentOS in their minds was not the part that was valued by a large proportion of its users.
- falcolas 6y agoThe goal of CentOS, back when I used it, was to provide a bedrock-solid OS and package repository. CentOS machines would run for months or years without manual intervention. That's as far from "innovation" as you can get - and that was the point. We didn't want the bleeding edge. We wanted the spine of the blade upon which to build our bleeding edge software.
- pnutjam 6y agoAny Linux will do that, or BSD. If you don't want support or patches, don't install them and silo your machine properly.
- garmaine 6y agoCentOS had patches. It just wasn’t a rolling release.
- pnutjam 6y agoSame with OpenSuse LEAP, Ubuntu, or Debian.
- falcolas 6y agoThe stability is, simply, not the same between them. CentOS remained on tried and tested releases for multiple years, backporting security fixes - though not features - for software. It kept the number of bugs you'd find in the software low and well known. Let's say, Nginx. On Debian, you might be running "buster", their stable release, and running nginx 1.18-1.19. On CentOS, you'd be running on nginx 1.14. This means that you're missing features, but the versions you're running are about as bulletproof as software gets, and (were) still receiving security updates. Newer versions are available, but usually from the developers directly; the official repos always held much older, stable versions. When they offered "Decades of Support", they meant it (well, they used to mean it).
- linuxftw 6y agoWho cares what that person said? It's either a community project or it isn't. No elections, no public discussions, it's not a community project.