A quote from change.org petition
"In 2014, CentOS was acquired by Red Hat. This concerned many in the community, as Red Hat, the creators of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), are a large for-profit organization. CentOS is an open source, free and complete Linux distribution based off the stable branch of RHEL. CentOS powers almost 19% of all Linux web servers globally.
Red Hat and CentOS both assured the public, the distribution (CentOS) would maintain its place in the community. They didn't keep their word. They've made an announcement that next year, CentOS 8 and future CentOS versions will be migrated to "CentOS Stream". CentOS stream is an upstream "testing" branch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (So is Fedora Linux - Why have two?) By making CentOS a test distribution, it completely destroys its usefulness as the stable, free, enterprise ready operating system for which it has been cherished by millions over the last 16 years."
RockyLinux
"Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with America's top enterprise Linux distribution now that its downstream partner has shifted direction. It is under intensive development by the community. Rocky Linux is led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project. There is no ETA for a release. Contributors are asked to reach out using the communication options offered on this site."
What are the discussions around this and the future of ClearOS being based on CentOS? Move to Rocky base?
"In 2014, CentOS was acquired by Red Hat. This concerned many in the community, as Red Hat, the creators of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), are a large for-profit organization. CentOS is an open source, free and complete Linux distribution based off the stable branch of RHEL. CentOS powers almost 19% of all Linux web servers globally.
Red Hat and CentOS both assured the public, the distribution (CentOS) would maintain its place in the community. They didn't keep their word. They've made an announcement that next year, CentOS 8 and future CentOS versions will be migrated to "CentOS Stream". CentOS stream is an upstream "testing" branch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (So is Fedora Linux - Why have two?) By making CentOS a test distribution, it completely destroys its usefulness as the stable, free, enterprise ready operating system for which it has been cherished by millions over the last 16 years."
RockyLinux
"Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with America's top enterprise Linux distribution now that its downstream partner has shifted direction. It is under intensive development by the community. Rocky Linux is led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project. There is no ETA for a release. Contributors are asked to reach out using the communication options offered on this site."
What are the discussions around this and the future of ClearOS being based on CentOS? Move to Rocky base?
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