So, what I don’t understand is that I thought the whole point of CentOS was that RedHat didn’t control it? I guess I missed the acquisition announcement, but a RedHat-owned CentOS makes a lot less sense to me.
Of course, users that just needed a free RHEL kept using it that way with the added bonus of corporate backing, so much that Scientific Linux said "screw it we'll just use CentOS".
They legitimately believe this is better. Maybe not for everybody, but for most. And for those who it's not better for they are announcing options in the next month or two for free RHEL access.
I just blogged about it if you are interested. There's a lot of inaccurate info out there as a result of poor initial messaging. I attempt to clear things up here: https://freedomben.medium.com/centos-is-not-dead-please-stop...
Dying as in lacking resources and developers - not users. They err really starting to lag upstream.
Does red hat own the CentOS brand?
Cynical answer of money aside, someone else mentioned the project was running into resource issues so they may have chosen RedHat over a slow inevitable death.
How come these people didn't help with CentOS? AFAIK it's been like two or three people doing almost all of the maintenance.
I'm not casting blame, I haven't helped much with CentOS either besides maintaining some small packages. But it's interesting to think about.
And in six months there will be 3 left.
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