Hi
I moved from CentOS 5 to SL6 when I urgently needed version 6 for some of its new features, and CentOS didn't get their act together for a few months.
I stayed with SL because of the extremely helpful, caring people who made up the team as well as those on the mailing lists.
It seemed a logical move for Fermilab to move to CentOS after CERN did that a while back. CentOS has matured since then and I do not see RedHat or IBM as threats, especially since Fermilab, CERN, et. al. will be helping to improve the product.
If anything does go awry in the future, I do not see major science institutions sitting back and doing nothing about it. Maybe even SL would then arise again? Call it Phoenix?
Anyway, I am now looking forward to CentOS 8. Are we there yet?
Cheers from an old-timer, with less than 2 cents left to contribute.
Bill
-----Original message-----
> From:Maarten <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday 28th April 2019 3:55
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: question regarding the future
>
> 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
> >
> > [log in to unmask]
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.crc.id.au&d=DwIFaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=bxSPoSV3klZdWvNSRY1MzfipTnfuVcJ-eFb3mV2ht3A&s=z13E-77e2i9E3Fd3_dgZfCfqJPga60K5Jdz9WOj_qIA&e=
> > +61 (3) 9001 6090 0412 935 897
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 1:08 AM, John Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >> Try Springdale Linux (formerly PUIAS), it was started long before
> >> CentOS.
> >> PU-IAS = Princeton University - Institute for Advanced Study
> >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__springdale.math.ias.edu_&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=wP65fR-SDNTSPXnXaiYwSUdkmZtorgLfyxLkJX73d1U&s=GCfR5v9kjH_NGH0--yMHNpy_l708MANUmXBGhyDJIBw&e=
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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