Re:The CentOS Project Just Committed Suicide
by walrus01 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:05AM
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It really depends how specific whatever software/application is to the unique layout and structure of centos vs debian.
If it's some common LAMP stack thing duplicating exactly the same thing on debian+nginx(or apache2)+php7.3+mariadb could be trivially easy.
For organizations that have things like ansible set up to auto provision things where the configuration files live on a centos system, obviously locations and naming will need to be changed.
there are also certain weird (usually closed source binary) applications shipped by software vendors for specific vertical industries, which ONLY exist in a form for RHEL or CentOS. It'll be interesting to see how that works out. The vendor won't support running it on debian or ubuntu server or anything else.
I would say that out of all the possible distros of Linux, RHEL is by far the one that I see with the most rare, weird, expensive paid software that gets developed for it, due to its extensive use in government and fortune 100 type environments. In which case I don't think much will really change since the same customers will go right on buying RHEL paid yearly licenses.
If it's some common LAMP stack thing duplicating exactly the same thing on debian+nginx(or apache2)+php7.3+mariadb could be trivially easy.
For organizations that have things like ansible set up to auto provision things where the configuration files live on a centos system, obviously locations and naming will need to be changed.
there are also certain weird (usually closed source binary) applications shipped by software vendors for specific vertical industries, which ONLY exist in a form for RHEL or CentOS. It'll be interesting to see how that works out. The vendor won't support running it on debian or ubuntu server or anything else.
I would say that out of all the possible distros of Linux, RHEL is by far the one that I see with the most rare, weird, expensive paid software that gets developed for it, due to its extensive use in government and fortune 100 type environments. In which case I don't think much will really change since the same customers will go right on buying RHEL paid yearly licenses.