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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by em500 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:03PM (#25349039)
LOL at the corporate guff. The primary use case of CentOS is "I want to run RHEL without paying anyone anything". The best way to "serve that need"? Don't kill off CentOS 8.3+.
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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by vbezhenar on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:48PM (#25350387)
Actually the best way is to allow free use of RHEL for those who don't want to pay for it.
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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:17PM (#25350765)
I mean, that's de-facto what CentOS was; RHEL but non-paid and with different branding. But I mean... they were built from the (exact) same sources, so similar that you could convert between them by un/installing a few packages.
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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by vbezhenar on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @04:21PM (#25351509)
The difference is that CentOS is really free. RHEL free will be whatever RedHat wants. Of course it won't be as free as CentOS. But if it'll be free enough to satisfy most CentOS users, that might be good enough.
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