[Beowulf] [External] RIP CentOS 8

[Carlos Bederián]

>
> Gregory Kurtzer says:
> December 8, 2020 at 4:27 pm
> <https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/#comment-183642>I
> am considering creating another rebuild of RHEL and may even be able to
> hire some people for this effort. If you are interested in helping, please
> join the HPCng slack (link on the website hpcng.org).
> Greg
> (original founder of CentOS)


Has Redhat changed anything in RHEL8 to prevent another CentOS from
sprouting?

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 3:14 PM Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at rutgers.edu>
wrote:

> I don’t think that’s all that hard to answer: because it doesn’t. Who on
> this list is magically going to buy hundreds of RedHat licenses because of
> this? Will someone somewhere? Some folks will move to Ubuntu or a
> competitor, and some will think twice about renewing an investment in
> RedHat without the CentOS critical mass.
>
> I wonder how IBM figures into this, if at all directly.
>
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> > On Dec 8, 2020, at 1:07 PM, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf <
> beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:
> >
> > Also, I'm not surprised at all by this. It seemed like it would be only
> a matter of time after RH ntook control of CentOS that they'd do something
> to stop it from competing with RHEL. Why support a free product that
> cannibalizes your commercial sales?
> >
> > Prentice
> >
> > On 12/8/20 11:27 AM, Chris Samuel wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> It looks like the CentOS project has announced the end of CentOS 8 as a
> version that tracked RHEL for the end of 2021, it will be replaced by the
> CentOS stream which will run ahead of RHEL8. CentOS 7 is unaffected (though
> RHEL7 only has 3 more years of life left).
> >>
> >> https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/
> >>
> >> > The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the
> >> > next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild
> >> > of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which
> >> > tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release. CentOS Linux 8, as
> >> > a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end of 2021. CentOS Stream
> >> > continues after that date, serving as the upstream (development)
> >> > branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
> >> >
> >> > Meanwhile, we understand many of you are deeply invested in
> >> > CentOS Linux 7, and we’ll continue to produce that version through
> >> > the remainder of the RHEL 7 life cycle.
> >>
> >> I always thought that Fedora was meant to be that upstream for RHEL,
> but perhaps the arrangement now will be Fedora -> CentOS -> RHEL.
> >>
> >> I wonder where this leaves the Lustre project, currently they only
> support RHEL7/CentOS7 as the server, and more interestingly, people who
> build Lustre appliances on top of CentOS.
> >>
> >> Then there's the question of projects like OpenHPC who've only just
> announced support for CentOS8 (and OpenSuSE15). They could choose to track
> CentOS Stream instead, probably without too much effort.
> >>
> >> I do wonder if this opens the door for the return of something like
> Scientific Linux.
> >>
> >> All the best,
> >> Chris
> >
> > --
> > Prentice Bisbal
> > Lead Software Engineer
> > Research Computing
> > Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
> > http://www.pppl.gov
> >
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