You don't get the point, CenOS is a community project which was bought by RedHat a few years ago, CentOS is short for Community Enterprise Operating System. Companies who didn't need RHEL support have whole infrastructures running on CentOS, and since RHEL6 was almost EOL many of those companies were doing migrations to CentOS8. Now with this decision and the EOL being shortened to end of 2021 companies have to move everything running CentOS8 to something else within a year which is not realistic since it's not alot of time. Companies run CentOS because it's a binary clone of RHEL and now with CentOS Stream it will be upstream of RHEL and rolling release, companies don't want to run a rolling beta release but want to run something which is stable and they can count on. With this stunt Redhat screwed over the opensource community and killed an opensource project. As for myself yes, on my home server systems I like to have a stable OS and not rolling release since I don't want to have to spend much time maintaining it, to quote @KGIII "Setup and forget". I can find a different distribution and test it which I have already done, but that doesn't mean I'm not allowed to have an opinion or reaction about it.
Rate this projectAlmaLinux OS is a binary-compatible rebuild of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source codes. The distribution intends to be a drop-in replacement for CentOS Linux with long-term support. The project's first stable release is AlmaLinux OS 8.3. "We are very happy to announce that today we are releasing the first AlmaLinux OS stable version. That's right, you can go right ahead and download the stable version and use it everywhere you need a stable, reliable, Linux distribution. For some time now we also have the conversion script in our GitHub repository, so you can also convert your system to AlmaLinux OS stable using it if you don't feel like reinstalling from scratch. AlmaLinux OS, the forever-free open source enterprise-grade Linux is ready. So, after about four months since the decision to steer CentOS in a different path, you now have a 1:1 binary compatible drop-in replacement, with a very long support timeframe. You can use it for any general purpose computing need, in bare-metal installations, in virtual machines, in containers, on cloud providers."
I've got "no starch press Absolute FreeBSD by Michael Lucas" and will be taking a gander. Do we have a dedicated thread (would it be off topic) on here for FreeBSD - would you like to start one Stan ? since maybe you are maybe most familiar with it
I hate to think that I might be most familiar with BSD... I've only barely scratched the surface. But as the BSD's are a "competitor" to Linux-based systems, it may not be a welcome addition here, even in Off Topic. I have too little knowledge to steer any serious discussion about it.
Installed but no way I am running a distribution that uses a code name like this.
[[email protected] ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
AlmaLinux release 8.3 (Purple Manul)
And so it would seem:
I can totally relate to this sentiment. I'm not very fond of code names, in general. I don't have them all memorized, and when someone says, "I'm running Tina Linux," it takes me awhile to figure it out. Yes, I'm old, and I'm grumpy. (And I'm a bit of a smart-arse, as has been noted!)
