[Info-vax] CentOS has been effectively killed for production use

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Wed Dec 9 13:15:26 EST 2020


On 2020-12-09, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 12/9/2020 8:34 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> IBM (who now own Red Hat) has just effectively killed CentOS for
>> production use by turning it into an unstable rolling distribution:
>> 
>> https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/09/centos_red_hat/
>> 
>> Fortunately, at least in the Unix/Linux world, there are always
>> other options.
>
> Supposedly there are about 1000 Linux distros.
>

But very few with the mindset needed for a production quality server
operating system, including stable releases and long term support.

Simon.

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