Splintering and fragmentation is somewhat a problem in Linux ecosystem, but on the other side competition is always good. Linux as a whole (kernel + various app

Splintering and fragmentation is somewhat a problem in Linux ecosystem, but on the other side competition is always good. Linux as a whole (kernel + various applications) supports wide range of use cases (IoT, hosting, desktop, mobile devices and more) and there is always room for building a Linux distribution optimizing specific use cases. One of the biggest gaps with CentOS in the past was missing conversion from previous versions to latest one (e.g. 7->8). This is one of the biggest requirements to get rid of "major version re-install process" and it is one of the strongest focus areas of VzLinux. Right now such conversion can be done without downtime for CentOS 8 -> VzLinux 8 and in particular case of system containers running on-top of Virtuozzos' containerization product, it supports mass conversion without access to container from inside, dry-run, rollback in case of errors and fully unattended conversion. The same - beside conversion without downtime - will be supported in near future for CentOS 7 -> VzLinux8. So can be perfectly used for large scale environments with big amounts of environments to convert them in scheduled maintenance windows.