Subj : For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
To   : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Jun 09 2024 04:06 pm

  Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
  By: Nightfox to DaiTengu on Fri Jun 07 2024 10:02 am

 > Ah, I've heard something about that.  I had the impression that CentOS as we
 > know it will be discontinued.  Wikipedia even says CentOS is a "discontinued
 > Linux distribution".  It sounds like CentOS Stream won't be much different
 > than the current CentOS?

It seems to me that IBM/Red Hat wanted to offer a free-tier RHEL that wasn't a real clone (such as CentOS used to be). The existence of a free RHEL is something that generates lots of indirect business and free marketing, but I bet they could not allow the free alternative to be a 1:1 clone.

CentOS Stream is a bit like a RHEL "Debian" Testing offered free of charge. If you just want to try the distribution or are a non-enterprise customer you can get the non-production ready code and roll with it for free. If you want to run the production-ready version you buy RHEL. It is the same business model Proxmox is based on, actually. The only problem is IBM/Red Hat is quite ineffective at preventing the creation of additional 1:1 clones of their flagship distro.


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