• Joe
    4•10 months ago

    Who cares?

    My company’s 9,000 CentOS machines and over 100,000 containers now mostly run Amazon Linux or Alpine. Rocky Linux was preferred by some, but we led the way and the rest followed. Our final licensed RH systems will also disappear this quarter (legacies of a DC-centric era), and we will be free of them.

    It was inertia that kept us with RH, but their bad faith moves kicked us into action. We now have better security tooling and processes all around, too.

    Good riddance, Red Hat (and IBM, until your next acquisition and corporate strangling)!

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      5•10 months ago

      I immediately called this after IBM bought Redhat. Its the same story that always happens: large company buys out other large company and runs it into the ground.

      • @ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
        2•10 months ago

        Wouldn’t say always. Here in Canada our telecoms have a great time buying out competitors, making a ton of money, and fucking over customers. The last one was Rogers’ acquisition of Shaw, Shaw being huge and Rogers being fucking massive.

    • V ‎ ‎ English
      1•10 months ago

      I said something similar once before when they first announce me their decision to kneecap themselves, but it’s worth saying again:

      They gained nothing from this decision. We used CentOS to trial deployments to prod servers running RHEL. We like how stable RHEL was. We appreciated the service agreements. We especially like how CentOS freed us from worrying about licensing. Their boneheaded decision ruined all of that. Before I left we had plans to migrate off RHEL (I asked an old coworker they actively are) because we can’t trust IBM not to Oracle us with some other world-ending BS in six months. Hundreds of RHEL servers and licenses gone, for what? They lost control of the open-source narrative when they shotgunned CentOS, and now the community initiative is led by people who don’t like them. Do yourself a favor and make it a priority to achieve Linux platform independence before RedHat is further Borgified by Big Blue.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    1•10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    It looks like the Red Hat change restricting access to RHEL sources that was announced last year is having the unintended consequence of causing some headaches for CentOS special interest group (SIG) projects.

    This is the special interest group maintaining extra kernel modules for CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

    We are working with Red Hat to resolve this situation and hope to be able to provide packages for Enterprise Linux again as soon as possible."

    Due to restricting access to the RHEL kernel sources among other Red Hat Enterprise Linux source packages, it’s causing issues for the CentOS SIG trying to improve the kernel modules experience for RHEL (and CentOS Stream) users…

    For the foreseeable future, the Hyperscale SIG will be tracking Fedora kernels to build and release into CentOS.

    The kernel is still built with a RHEL-like configuration, modulo changes for CentOS Hyperscale specifically."

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