CentOS is now dead!

[Predrag Punosevac]

Dear Autonians,

CentOS is officially dead.

https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/#comments

IBM who aquired RedHat last year have pulled the plug on CentOS in similar
fashion Oracle did with OpenSolaris after SunMicrosystems aqusition. The
writing was on the wall ever since Red Hat killed Scientific Linux by
hiring off its developer from Fermi labs and shortly after hiring CentOS
project founders.

In the near term the above news will have no effect on the Auton Lab
computing infrastructure as we are using Springdale Linux, the oldest free
rebuilt of the RHEL by Princeton university. Long term RPM availability
might become problematic as people will have no incentive to create those
RPMs as free RHEL rebuilt ecosystem just shrunk 90%.

With Red Hat and SUSE Linux fully proprietary whithout stable community
edition, Ubuntu remains only other major relatively stable Linux distro
still available for free use.

I continue to monitor situation and reaction of major US national
laboratories who mostly use CentOS.

I wish I could tell you that this woul lead to major growth and popularity
of Springdale Linux or the raise of BSD based scientific computing
ecosystem but that seems very unlikely.

The newly minted PhDs should embrace themselves for the era of proprietary
OSs. Welcome back to 1980s,1990s and UNIX wars.

Cheers,
Predrag
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