I still find it uncertain of what might happen in the future, changes 
can take more then a couple of years to develop.
Also with IBM having bought Redhat the future can still be uncertain, 
IBM is not known for their opensource projects.
Yes with Fermilab, CERN and other labs deciding to go with CentOS 
chances are increased of CentOS staying the way
it us, but Redhat and IBM remains a companies and companies are driven 
by increasing their profit. Just my two cents ;)

On 4/27/19 7:18 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
> I think this misses the point.
>
> SL was a major 'security blanket' for the uncertainty that was 
> happening with RedHat essentially taking control of CentOS. People 
> were not sure which way things were going to go, so SL filled the gap.
>
> As time has passed, RedHat has done the right thing so far with CentOS 
> - and a lot of people are less nervous as a result.
>
> I understand the decision not to do an SL8 - as the environment is 
> pretty settled again and it is much clearer how this will run. It's 
> better to utilise those resources on a more internal focus.
>
> The threat of CentOS disappearing is gone, so most people will 
> probably pick up CentOS 8 when it comes around to it.
> Steven Haigh
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> On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 1:08 AM, John Holmes <[log in to unmask]> 
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>> Try Springdale Linux (formerly PUIAS), it was started long before 
>> CentOS.
>> PU-IAS = Princeton University - Institute for Advanced Study
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>> On 27/04/2019 14:15, Maarten wrote:
>>>  Hello fellow SL users,
>>>
>>>  I having been using SL for a while now, after the CentOS project 
>>> became
>>>  part of Redhat
>>>  I was glad that I was using SL because I would think that CentOS would
>>>  become a middle
>>>  testing ground for Redhat to test new things, getting the idea SL 
>>> would
>>>  stay closer to the
>>>  source since it just being another clone. Now that it has been 
>>> announced
>>>  that there will
>>>  be no SL8, what's the best clone to switch to after EOL of SL6 and 
>>> SL7.
>>>  Even  though
>>>  Redhat says that  CentOS will never be used as a testing ground or
>>>  switch how they are
>>>  doing things, I do not believe what they say now will be the same 
>>> in the
>>>  future.
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