A storm of criticism from the community at the end of CentOS, the situation where the founder of CentOS announces the launch of a new project
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It has been reported that community members have complained about the discontinuation of CentOS development announced on December 8, 2020. At the same time, the launch of Rocky Linux , the successor to CentOS, was announced.
CentOS Linux is dead—and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement” | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-shifts-from-red-hat-unbranded-to-red-hat-beta/
On December 8, 2020, The CentOS Project, which is developing one of the Linux distributions 'CentOS', announced that it will shift its focus from 'CentOS 8' to ' CentOS Stream '.
'CentOS 8' will end at the end of 2021, and the policy to focus on CentOS Stream for subsequent development is clear --GIGAZINE
According to the IT-based news site Ars Technica, CentOS is so far Red Hat is developing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has been positioned as a 'preview version of the next version of', looks like one year ahead of RHEL And had a function. Compared to commercial RHEL, CentOS has been widely supported by the developer community because it is compatible with RHEL but free to use.
Meanwhile, as mentioned above, CentOS has ended development and support, and it has been decided that it will be integrated into CentOS Stream in the future. This will force CentOS users to choose between migrating to RHEL or migrating to a new CentOS Stream project.
However, while the FAQ page provided by CentOS explains that 'CentOS Stream will not be a beta test version of RHEL', CentOS community manager Rich Bowen said 'CentOS Stream is an upstream of RHEL'. a stream development is a branch ' discussed , such as the vision for the future of the CentOS are ambiguous outlook becomes opaque.
Regarding this attitude, Ars Technica said, 'In his announcement about CentOS Stream, Red Hat's Chris Wright assured him that he would'build a wider and more diverse community,'but at least traditional. The 'community' in the context of open source culture seems to be left lacking in just such an initiative, 'he said, putting the community around CentOS in an unstable situation. He showed the view that he was there.
In fact, Bowen's blog post announcing the move to CentOS Stream posted as many as 459 comments at the time of writing, most of which said, ' CentOS has already lost tremendous market share to Ubuntu. However, there are comments such as ' This announcement is likely to be the last nail to hit the lid of the casket ' and 'It's incredibly disappointing. They think that this will increase RHEL sales. Is it rather? I think it's a great way to keep users away, for example, because Amazon Linux 2 is free to use. '
In addition, on the online petition site Change.org, a signing activity 'Please use CentOS as an upstream development branch of RHEL and do not destroy it' was developed, and 5719 supporters were listed at the time of writing the article. ..
Do not destroy CentOS by using it as a RHEL upstream · Change.org
https://www.change.org/p/centos-governing-board-do-not-destroy-centos-by-using-it-as-a-rhel-upstream
Greg Kurtzer, co-founder of CentOS and head of the development project for CAOS Linux , the predecessor of CentOS, is one of those who are dissatisfied with Red Hat's decision. Through Ars Technica, Kurtzer said on December 9th, 'I was as shocked by the news from Red Hat as any other community member. I was such an unexpected We are proud to announce a new project, Rocky Linux, in honor of the late Rocky McGough, co-founder of CentOS, to keep up with the changes. '
Ars Technica said of the newly launched Rocky Linux, 'Rocky Linux is just a name and a statement of determination so far, but Kurtzer's name value is a project with thousands of signatures gathered in just a few hours. The same market momentum that drove the earliest CentOS is likely to bring the community project back to life. '
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