Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS

Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by Spivak on Saturday December 12, 2020 @05:03PM (#25402175)

I mean the writing seems to be on the wall that someone is going to buy Canonical and crush Ubuntu at some point in the medium-term.

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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by lightbulbjim on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:27PM (#25402774)

My bet is Microsoft. One day we will have Windows-native snaps. Hmm...

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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by ThrowawayR2 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @08:05PM (#25403350)

Microsoft turned down an offer to bid on Red Hat, whose enterprise focus is a much better fit for them, before the sale to IBM so there's no reason to believe they would bid for Canonical.

https://www.businessinsider.com/red-hat-deal-talks-with-amaz...

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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by pjmlp on Sunday December 13, 2020 @07:23AM (#25406100)

Other than Ubuntu being the favoured WSL distro.

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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by FlyMoreRockets on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:03PM (#25402998)

Wow. That sounds surprisingly probable, now that you bring it up. Ubuntu is wildly popular, but requires a lot of money. Microsoft has a lot of money and seems to be trending toward open source.

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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by rangoon626 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:23AM (#25404938)

The great consolidations of linxuses of the 2020s. Back to BSDs?

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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by fgonzag on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:51AM (#25405025)

Debian is still available. And it's great.

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