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If this can happen to CentOS, do we have to fear a comparable fate for Fedora? I've been using it for the last year, and it has been a nice change, but I wouldn
by daptaq 6y ago
If this can happen to CentOS, do we have to fear a comparable fate for Fedora? I've been using it for the last year, and it has been a nice change, but I wouldn't want it to die out because of strategy decisions. On the other hand, Fedora and RHEL don't seem to be in direct competition.
- bombcar 6y agoAnything can die - even Debian (!!) could die or be taken over given enough changes. But some are much more likely than others, and choosing which to base yourself on is a form a risk decision; perhaps a minor one.
- jgilias 6y agoI don't think so. The important difference being that CentOS is/was downstream of RHEL. So, repacked RHEL to remove the branding, but otherwise exactly the same. This obviously competes with RHEL directly if you feel like you're able and willing to support the system on your own. On the other hand, Fedora is upstream of RHEL. So, it serves an important role as a testing ground for stuff that may or may not end up in RHEL later down the line. I'm pretty sure you're safe, as it actually fills an essential role that is useful to Red Hat and that is very unlikely to eat into their main business.
- daxelrod 6y agoFedora is strategically useful to Red Hat as an upstream of CentOS Stream, which is now an upstream of RHEL. As long as that remains the case, I wouldn’t expect them to pull funding.