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

[Neil Rieck]

My employer uses RHEL for all customer-facing production platforms and CentOS for everything else (this includes everything from development, customer acceptance, employee hands-on training, etc). In fact, my employer was using CentOS as on on-ramp for driving projects onto RHEL platforms. It appears that IBM has thrown a monkey-wrench into those plans.

I have no idea what the future holds but history can be instructive. Recall that when Michael Widenius and others didn't like where SUN was taking MySQL, they created MariaDB (that decision seems fortuitous after Oracle acquired SUN; then promised the EU not to kill MySQL; then slowed MySQL bug fixes for more than a year until they noticed that "a lot" of people in the Linux community were preferentially installing MariaDB)

If CentOS just received a death sentence from IBM then perhaps Rocky Linux is the MariaDB equivalent

https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/rocky_linux/

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://neilrieck.net