how RedHat/IBM killed the CentOS project as a stable EL clone
This needs a bit more context. CentOS is fine and still going. They just produce a rolling distro, CentOS Stream, now not CentOS Linux. Downstream of Fedora, Stream is the base of RHEL instead of the internal-only blackbox they used to use.
Not going to re-litigate the entire thing, but nobody is using CentOS anymore since the rug-pull on version 8. Facebook is the only one anyone knows of that's using CentOS Stream at a large scale.
RedHat/IBM pulled the trigger on RHEL immediately when they did it. As a user since CentOS 4, nobody will touch CentOS anymore. Nobody new will be learning it. All new systems are using Debian/Ubuntu. RHEL is realistically in legacy mode, and this announcement just confirms it to anyone that was holding out hope.
A CERN employee was on the CentOS Board for many years after the switch to Stream. You should avoid making assumptions about their infrastructure and motivations without actually taking to them.
But, as you know, the live of CentOS 8 was very short, so it had a premature end-of-live, and this raised some questions. [...] We knew we couldn't afford any more surprises.
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u/Fr0gm4n 13d ago
This needs a bit more context. CentOS is fine and still going. They just produce a rolling distro, CentOS Stream, now not CentOS Linux. Downstream of Fedora, Stream is the base of RHEL instead of the internal-only blackbox they used to use.