Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
By: Nightfox to DaiTengu on Fri Jun 07 2024 10:02 am
> Ah, I've heard something about that. I had the impression that CentOS as we
> know it will be discontinued. Wikipedia even says CentOS is a "discontinued
> Linux distribution". It sounds like CentOS Stream won't be much different
> than the current CentOS?
It seems to me that IBM/Red Hat wanted to offer a free-tier RHEL that wasn't a r
eal clone (such as CentOS used to be). The existence of a free RHEL is something
that generates lots of indirect business and free marketing, but I bet they cou
ld not allow the free alternative to be a 1:1 clone.
CentOS Stream is a bit like a RHEL "Debian" Testing offered free of charge. If y
ou just want to try the distribution or are a non-enterprise customer you can ge
t the non-production ready code and roll with it for free. If you want to run th
e production-ready version you buy RHEL. It is the same business model Proxmox i
s based on, actually. The only problem is IBM/Red Hat is quite ineffective at pr
eventing the creation of additional 1:1 clones of their flagship distro.
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