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RH plan to kill RHEL clones
« on: June 28, 2023, 09:21:13 PM »
I'm sure by now allot of people here have read this post by Red Hat 2 days ago on 26 June 2023.

Which leaves CentOS Stream now on a death bed that RH just wants to use for free innovations they can use for a closed source RHEL.
And his threats to kill all/any RHEL clones...

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

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Re: RH plan to kill RHEL clones
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2023, 02:46:39 AM »
I'm sorry, but I'm not seeing a looming apocalypse on the horizon. I'm not believing that the sky is falling anytime soon.
Can you share more insight as to what your concerns are?

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Re: RH plan to kill RHEL clones
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2023, 04:52:56 AM »
IMO its now time for CWP to move over to ubuntu

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Re: RH plan to kill RHEL clones
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2023, 02:18:52 AM »
There are plenty of control panels that work with Debian-based OSes and abstracted ones like Webmin, so I don't see much need for CWP devs to spread themselves even thinner by trying to support another distribution lineage. In this case, specialty is good. This was originally CentOS Web Panel, now rebranded as Control Web Panel to keep the acronym but apply more generally and not be specifically limited to CentOS proper (which now has taken an upstream swim to be an unstable rolling distribution). Personally, I prefer Debian OS derivatives on the desktop (Ubuntu, Mint) and prefer EL on the server side (CentOS 7, soon to be Alma Linux 9).

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Re: RH plan to kill RHEL clones
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2023, 07:34:33 PM »
Currently RH has fully stopped publishing to the repositories used to build EL clones.

Only upstream Stream repositories are still working, but these don't contain current bug fixes or updates.

Leave it up to some IBM suit to screw things up.

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Re: RH plan to kill RHEL clones
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2023, 02:49:55 AM »
Might be time to get a RH dev account and take them up on the offer for a free license. Then you have access to the source code, and maybe then you accidentally mirror it on your pub FTP server. Accidentally.

Any AlmaLinux devs catching this?