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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by chefkoch on Saturday December 12, 2020 @02:57PM (#25401077)
Just check back in three months and there will be a drop in replacement for CentOS. No need to follow the news now every day, it's not an election.
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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by EwanToo on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:50PM (#25403272)
Oracle already offers one, depending on your level of trust (or distrust) in future support from them

https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/

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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by ss2003 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @08:04PM (#25403343)
There are many great reasons not to trust Oracle.
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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by FlyMoreRockets on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:52PM (#25402922)
If it is so easy to create a drop in replacement, why can't CentOS continue as usual?
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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by andyjpb on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:29PM (#25403147)
Reading between the lines, I assume that it's because Red Hat / IBM own that trademark and they've decided to stop using it for that project.

In principle, there's no reason why another-CentOS couldn't come about in the same way as CentOS came about originally.

...but now that CentOS has been professionally funded for so long, the bar is higher than it used to be.

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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by paulryanrogers on Saturday December 12, 2020 @08:27PM (#25403458)
Actually there is still Springdale Linux and soon to be Rocky Linux, from a CentOS founder.
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