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<![CDATA[<body><header><h1>A Brief Goodbye to CentOS</h1></header><p>The traditional CentOS Linux distribution as we know it is dead.
Here is another drop in the ocean of opinion pieces that follow the
news of its death. After cooling down from the initial rush of
blood to my head, here is my take on this event.</p><h2>Why Did This Probably Happen</h2><p>With the advent of DevOps and SRE, businesses and startups are
moving away from the old-school concept of traditional server
clusters to running their applications on disposable containers.
The trend is clear and true. Developers are increasingly less
reliant on a tried-and-true Linux distribution that lasts for a
decade. With containers, developers can develop, test, deploy, and
rollback with blazing fast velocity.</p><h2>How It Will Affect All of Us</h2><p>Without a doubt one of the most popular Linux distributions to
ever exist, CentOS was prevalent among all kinds of computing
systems ranging from simple database servers to billion-dollar
computer clusters. There are countless organizations have made the
business decision to keep using the traditional model, or
organizations that do not require microservices at all. With CentOS
drawn from below their feet, a lot of organizations will be forced
to migrate to another option, or fork out a pretty penny for RHEL.
Besides, on-prem deployment of any container orchestration tool
still requires a stable Linux distribution.</p><p>The second ripple effect it will have is towards the skilled
professionals who have spend decades on CentOS. Not every company
is willing to pay up for RHEL or risk using CentOS Stream. For
those who migrate to Debian or OpenSUSE, they will have to retrain
and adapt with different tools.</p><h2>Questioning IBM/Red Hat Decisions</h2><p>The most obvious of them all was, was it necessary for CentOS to
die? With CentOS Stream to track ahead of RHEL, it is still
possible for CentOS to remain functional and serve its purpose.
This is clearly a business decision to increase profits. It used to
be that developers wanted to write for RHEL but did not want pay
for it; CentOS filled that need. What also happened was that some
companies decided that they wanted the free experience all the way.
Red Hat now provides free use of the Red Hat Universal Base Image
for developers. With this, companies no longer have an excuse.</p><p>Secondly, why the PR disaster? In hindsight, there is no way to
deliver this news gently to the public. However, I felt that Red
Hat gave the bird to the open source community, especially those
who contributed to CentOS, by pulling the plug on Centos 8 towards
the end of 2021. There wasn't even a courtesy to end it later then
CentOS 7's EOL date, June 30th 2024. A raw-dogged "Pay up, now" to
everyone.</p><p>Last of all, what is the next move from Red Hat/IBM? With CentOS
gone, there is a huge vacuum for another to take its place. RHEL
sources are still available and can still be repackaged. While Red
Hat currently has massive influence over Linux in general, is this
a arrogant statement proclaiming "Hey, you can't live without me"?
Another ominuous take with conspiratorial undertones would be that
Red Hat plans to eventually scrap the FOSS model, but I would have
to wear my tin hat for this one.</p><h2>So, What Happens Now?</h2><p>Almost immediately after the release, all the attention is now
directed to towards filling the space that CentOS will leave
behind. Undoubtedly, Ubuntu and SUSE would try to assert their
presence with their open source alternatives. Debian, the largest
behemoth of them all, hopefully will receive funding and
participation like never before. A silver lining of this event
would perhaps be the buzzing excitement of what will be and can be.
It is time to be excited about Linux again. I, for one, have to
begin migrating my CentOS containers and virtual machines to
Debian.</p><p>CentOS's founder, Gregory Kurtzer, is working with the community
to establish Rocky Linux. Join them at
https://webchat.freenode.net/#rockylinux .</p><blockquote>I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you
truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an
eggplant.<br/>
- Ursula K. Le Guin</blockquote></body>]]>