Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

Posted Jul 14, 2021 22:48 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
Parent article: Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

> But Carl George wondered if a more radical plan was in order. He believes that Stream is effectively the continuation of CentOS 8

Wow, the corporate is strong in this one.

Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

Posted Jul 14, 2021 23:06 UTC (Wed) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (4 responses)

LOL. Obviously, you've never met Carl.

Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

Posted Jul 15, 2021 8:51 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] (3 responses)

I honestly have no idea what 'corporate' means to various people. It seems to be an easy to go vilification without having to think about it.

I disagree with Carl on this, but I also realize he is coming from a place where he is trying to make the best of what he was told to get done. Carl is a very dedicated and gung-ho person who will try to do the best for the most people with what he has available. He was gung-ho for years to make IUS as best a third-party repository of software that he could. And now he is 120% dedicated to CentOS Stream.

Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

Posted Jul 15, 2021 9:49 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (2 responses)

Especially here, but typically, "corporate" is usually used to mean the hell of responsibility without authority.

It comes up elsewhere - people who eg cannot move off RHEL 6 !!! because of decisions made by someone else which they have no power to change.

Cheers,
Wol

Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

Posted Jul 15, 2021 14:17 UTC (Thu) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (1 responses)

Off topic, but oh yeah RHEL 6!

We see about a million EL 6 systems looking for EPEL updates every day -- that's twice the number of EL 8 systems (and half of EL 7).

Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

Posted Jul 19, 2021 1:25 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I mean, I can relate, we replaced our main application and shared shell account server running RHEL5 on a 10yr old Dell R910 in 2020 to an RHEL7 host because we were finally forced to, the old one worked just fine and did everything we needed out of it, so the replacement which had been on the radar for 5 years finally became a priority. Our userbase is a little old school though, our main tools were developed in perl, ksh, make, RCS in Solaris long ago and tools like git or JSON are new and foreign :-)