Re: [PLUG] CentOS

Order is fedora, centos stream, redhat, centos... And they are removing the last one. In short all the maturity leads to the paid product. What began as stewardship of (a) linux has turned into the community being used as the test-bed with IBM owning the results.

The change is stewardship vs ownership. None of this is a big surprise considering that RHSM (https) was being forced and RHN expired. IBM is walking away from the stewardship model toward centralized ownership of the final product.

FWIW the linux kernel is still GPL 2.0.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020, 3:08 PM Chad Waters via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

Yeah, I think the whole selling-point of CentOS was that it was
near-identical to RHEL but free. That makes it great as a
test/development platform, or for production for cheapskates. In
theory binaries that run on one would run on the other, and so on.

I still haven't read up on the gory details of the change - I never
used CentOS or RHEL myself. However, I can see the appeal of that
sort of LTS platform for enterprise solutions, especially in more
traditional IT organizations.

Yes. I have used CentOS in lab environments as a freely licensed RHEL equivalent to demo other products. There are products that state they on linux which really means they run on a specific RHEL version.

BTW, I have used RHEL in production instances in the past as well. I have never contacted RedHat support.

My question: if CentOS Stream is the testbed for RHEL, what does that mean for Fedora?

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