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

[David Wade]

On 11/12/2020 00:09, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/9/2020 1:30 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/9/2020 1:15 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> True. But there are a few.
>>
>> And likely some new will enter the market to fill the gap.
> 
> https://rockylinux.org/
> 
> Arne
> 
The trouble is they come and go. You have no idea how long each will last.
Whitebox started well and faded away...

https://www.whiteboxlinux.org/

the great problem with linux is not that there are 1000 distributions 
but that there are no free distributions that stay on the same path.

Dave