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The killing of CentOS Linux: 'The CentOS board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do'

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Brian Exelbierd, Red Hat Liaison and CentOS board member, gives the company perspective Interview Brian Exelbierd, responsible for Red Hat liaison with the CentOS project and a board member of that project, has told The Register that CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat simply refused to invest in it.…

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Comments (7)

Steven_Rosenber ·
I've seen some saying that the CentOS guys sold to Red Hat for very little. I'm not even sure what the "aquihire" situation is at this point. This article sort of dances around that Stream is branded as CentOS, but it's really Red Hat people making it, and not the former CentOS people.
penguinist ·
And Stream really does not replace CentOS in production server applications. You want ultra stability, not bleeding edge.
MichaelTunnell ·
there are reports that CentOS was going to die as a project if Red Hat not bought them so it would have been much worse than the current situation.
Steven_Rosenber ·
If RH hadn't bought CentOS, Scientific Linux would have continued.
MichaelTunnell ·
Scientific Linux was losing funding that is why they decided to rebase on CentOS. If CentOS were to have ended, Scientific Linux would have as well. The current situation might not be ideal for some but it is better than the alternatives that would have likely happened.
prajwel ·
I am curious, why isn't Debian-stable popular? From what I have seen, it claims to be stable and can therefore replace CentOS.
jdixon ·
> ...why isn't Debian-stable popular?

It's not Red Hat compatible. Red Hat is the enterprise Linux distribution. SuSE is a far distant competitor, as is Ubuntu. People who want to be compatible across their company need Red Hat compatibility.

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