[Wolves] CentOS

[Adam Sweet]

On 09/12/2020 15:34, Andy Smith via Wolves wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 12:52:32PM +0000, Adam Sweet via Wolves wrote:
>> A key thing I noted from the Birmingham list is that as recently as 1st
>> Dec, the CentOS website said CentOS 8 (released in Sept 2019) was
>> supported until 31 May 2029, but now that date is 31 December 2021 when
>> it becomes a rolling release sitting 'just ahead' of RHEL development.
>> That means people have been installing version 8 for over a year
>> believing they will get 10 years of security patches and the rug has
>> been pulled out from under them.
> 
> Yeah, I feel very sorry for people who have worked hard to install
> or upgrade huge server estates to CentOS 8 only to now know they
> will be doing it again in less than a year. For some that in itself
> was a year's work.
> 
> I've seen multiple comments in the last 24 hours along the lines of,
> "worked so hard to convince my employer that CentOS was a stable
> platform, installed it on hundreds/thousands of servers, now fear
> for my job."

That is really depressing. That could easily be me.

Another victim I thought of are all those cPanel and Plesk etc shared
hosting providers of which there are thousands with customers perhaps in
the millions. AFAIK, those only support RHEL, CentOS or CloudLinux,
which I've never heard of before. They don't support Debian, Ubuntu or
SUSE. Wonder what they'll do. I suppose it comes down to cPanel/Plesk to
figure out, but that's an awful lot of work for an awful lot of people.
I bet half of them don't patch anyway...

I meant to post the link to the petition earlier, for whatever good it
will do:

https://www.change.org/p/centos-governing-board-do-not-destroy-centos-by-using-it-as-a-rhel-upstream

Which is very little I imagine.

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