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“The end of CentOS could have the unintended effect of undermining the demand for ultra-stable ‘enterprise’ distributions in general.” That seems possible. Per

“The end of CentOS could have the unintended effect of undermining the demand for ultra-stable ‘enterprise’ distributions in general.” That seems possible. Perhaps like the UNIX of old, Solaris et al, the ultra-stable ‘enterprise’ Linux distributions will retreat to large enterprise customers?

bayindirh 6y ago
I don't think so. We have Debian based ultra-stable distributions, namely Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS. I'm not sure that RH/IBM is in the position of "nah, they can either pay or go home, we don't care". This stance will not only start a slow-shift towards Debian and Canonical (Containers are portable, right?) but, will open some gap for Oracle Linux. I bet RH wouldn't like that.
- simonh 6y ago
  >slow-shift towards Debian and Canonical... This will only happen if no community replacement for CentOS gains traction. I wouldn't bet on that.
  - bayindirh 6y ago
    > I wouldn't bet on that. Me neither but, for some of the user base (HPC, Scientific computing, et al.), new model might not be sufficient. We'll see that. The issue is too deep but, there are some older comments by me: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25349371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25349371 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25448600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25448600
  - fogihujy 6y ago
    It will also only happen if CloudLinux goes the Debian route. Which they won't, as they're launching what looks like a somewhat credible initiative to replace CentOS.