Forgive my cynicism...<p>I'm not sure I'm seeing any content that's worth upvoting. This is link to a GitHub Repo containing... A readme claiming to replace centos?<p>So I followed the link from the issue that was asking donations, and it takes me to a GitHub account that outlines some goals, and a couple more repos for 2 versions of a Rocky Linux website.<p>Am I missing something?
Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux now that CentOS has shifted direction - CentOS founder Gregory Kurtzer to start new rebuild of RHEL.
Yes! I'm bookmarking this repo. As soon as there is a more concrete plan, I will definitely pledge my time to help out.<p>I hope we all learned our lesson on this one -- let's not get acquired by RedHat/IBM this time around :)<p>Three cheers for Kurtzer!
I was reading this post about the reasons of that:
" Many of us have deployed CentOS servers to production environments, trusting Red Hat’s promise that CentOS 8 would be supported through 2029. The Red Hat announcement means that those installs reach end of life after less than 2 years, with the only upgrade path being Centos Stream — AKA being a forced beta tester for RHEL".<p><a href="https://hackaday.com/2020/12/09/centos-is-dead-long-live-centos/" rel="nofollow">https://hackaday.com/2020/12/09/centos-is-dead-long-live-cen...</a>
Looks like they've got a solid team put together already :)<p><a href="https://github.com/rocky-linux/organization/wiki/Contributing" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rocky-linux/organization/wiki/Contributin...</a>
Very interesting. Quite a few commercial products are now based on CentOS as their main operating system. I wonder if they will switch to Rocky Linux as well.<p>I believe the planned stream version of CentOS does not appeal to the need of many enterprises.