Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS
by BossingAround on Saturday December 12, 2020 @04:21PM
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> It hardly qualifies as drama when your OS fails to remain completely stable and dependable for more than a decade and a half
Isn't stability and dependability the precise reason of CentOS popularity? Do you have any source on it not being stable and/or dependable?
Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS
by FlyMoreRockets on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:47PM
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You're not wrong. I've maintained a mission critical CentOS server for the better part of a decade and it has been quite stable and dependable, despite their embrace of systemd which broke stuff the system required. I think I only had to do a manual reboot three times during that point, which is good, because it is on a remote mountaintop with access to the range controlled by armed guards.
Still, you seem to be missing the larger point. Suddenly, CentOS is dead. Maybe I'm an outlier, but that seems like a disruption in its stability and dependability.
Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS
by BossingAround on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:43AM
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Well, I was reacting to:
> [fails to be stable] for more than a decade and a half
CentOS was stable for more than a decade and a half. Whether it continues to be stable or not, that remains to be seen, unless you're an oracle :)
With the number of changes that have happened with Apple's, Microsoft's and Google's various OSes over that period it's hard to say that GNU/Linux isn't being held to a higher standard here. CentOS being the trademark-stripped knockoff of a corporate OS is the reason for the instability - when you deal in corporate OSes, you're subject to the business strategies of their sponsors. Some would say (weasel words) that the strategies of the sponsor of CentOS have been the source of instability and conflict across Linuxen for a long time now.