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I think they will come to regret this move in the long run. With Amazon signing up to sponsor rocky linux, it's only a matter of time before the user base move
by tw04 6y ago
I think they will come to regret this move in the long run. With Amazon signing up to sponsor rocky linux, it's only a matter of time before the user base moves there vs. dealing with all the headaches of "free" RHEL.
Especially given that they won't make any commitments to long term availability beyond "we have no intent".
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-r...
>We have no intent to end this program and we’ve set it up to be sustainable
https://rockylinux.org/ https://rockylinux.org/
- kodah 6y ago16 servers in a data center is probably a medium sized business, if not a larger small business that does zero virtualization. 16 servers in the cloud that are rightly sized sounds incredibly small. I can't imagine this will sell many people much less attract former CentOS users. Given the fact that they've changed course so quickly on CentOS stream I can't imagine there's much good user faith to go around. To me, this was much bigger than just a shot in the foot.
- jlgaddis 6y agoi've got more than 16 "right-sized" VMs on the VMware cluster in my homelab. Between the other half-dozen physical servers, there's probably another 40+ "OS instances". Besides, I've had a RHEL developer account (which allowed me to register 16 hosts) for a few years now and it's been unused. Having to request it be renewed annually is a pain in the ass too.