Little Community Element Left in CentOS
January: Only One Person in Charge of Fedora is Not IBM Staff
The exodus continues:
Christian Hofstede-Kuhn has this new article about CentOS Stream, which was considered the end of CentOS or a free clone of RHEL (except the branding).
A few days ago the CentOS Board said they had recorded the meeting for March and published the minutes in Gitlab. They seem to have reached some stability after many resignations:
Exercise to the reader: how many of the people above are IBM staff?
Christian Hofstede-Kuhn said: "I work for Red Hat, but the opinions here are my own, based on running my personal infrastructure.
Well, he is IBM employee "100% of the time".
He said: "Downstream RHEL rebuilds still exist for users who want the old model, and they fill the role old CentOS occupied. But CentOS Stream offers something those rebuilds structurally cannot: an upstream role with a genuine feedback loop into RHEL development."
But that is not stable or predictable. CentOS, unlike Fedora, was meant to be long supported and solid. We used CentOS for our servers for many years. We stopped or moved in December 2018, shortly after IBM had bought Red Hat. The physical host ran Alpine. Later (2023) we moved everything to Debian. █