Comment by garyrichardson | Hacker News Reader

Comment by garyrichardson | Hacker News Reader

There's lots of negative reaction going on, but this has happened before. CentOS grew out of RedHat Linux going away and Fedora being the feeder for RHEL. At the time there were a bunch of competitors that were building the RHEL source. CentOS ended up "winning".

I fully expect this to happen again. CentOS will wither and die because no one actually needs the cutting edge repo -- Ubuntu has a way better process for this. RHEL is build on open source. They publish their SPRM packages. A bunch of people will grab these and start bootstrapping DentOS and everyone will move to this. IBM will be sliced up by PE and RedHat will be owned by someone else. 10 years will go by and RHEL will acquire the leading "DentOS" and today's DevOps will be tomorrow's greybeards and will patiently wait for EentOS to emerge.

i don't think in 10 years we will be installing distro on servers as we know it, watch this space!

^this.

I believe Red Hat is anticipating this movement and betting on other things. Playing the long game.

It's sad, the community is sad, the employees are sad. But company-wise it makes sense.

No it doesn't. Support your stuff until you have a replacement.

Are you thinking about RedHat Atomic Linux Server?

What will change...? A lot of F500 companies have a lot of infrastructure and changes are not fast.. HPC industry is another one of those. Unless you mean startups?

The software industry as a whole has been moving away from major releases for commoditized products like web browsers for a long time. The OS has become one such product. Windows has been planning this for some time now: where is Windows 11? OSX has catchy release names but has reverted to macOS - no number. You’re right, change is slow, but I don’t think it’s an unreasonable statement. Large organizations will eventually catch up and/or roll their own solutions with internal devops teams. HPCs are already so highly specialized I’m not sure what the difference would be, and as virtualization performance continues to improve I think we will see a gradual, but not complete, shift from aggressive compiler optimization for niche architectures and configurations.

This isn't true for internal software tho, user facing, sure, but, chrome dependencies have a version pinned to them.

We will be starting hosts with preloaded images, write my words! :D

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