Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-10 Thread Richard B. Pyne
Look at Rocky Linux rockylinux.org It is set to become what CentOS was before it was sucked in by RH and sold to IBM, a Community Enterprise OS. On 12/8/2020 8:15 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: Forgive a bit of cynicism ... On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 09:06 -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: The future of the CentOS

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-10 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 12/10/20 5:28 PM, mark wrote: > On 12/9/20 9:32 AM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 1:41 AM Pete Biggs wrote: >> I think what a lot of people are concerned about is the rolling-release > aspect of this. There will be no definitive versioning of CentOS in > the

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-10 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2020-12-10 18:40 Brendan Conoboy ha scritto: Hey, you dropped Centos-devel from your reply. I'll assume that was intentional, but if it wasn't feel free to quote any of this back there. Hi Brendan, no, it was not intentional - I replied from the smartphone and I accidentally dropped the ce

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-10 Thread mark
On 12/9/20 9:32 AM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 1:41 AM Pete Biggs wrote: I think what a lot of people are concerned about is the rolling-release aspect of this. There will be no definitive versioning of CentOS in the future - all you will be able to say is "fully updated" a

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-10 Thread Sergio Belkin
El mar, 8 dic 2020 a las 13:44, Nicolas Kovacs () escribió: > Le 08/12/2020 à 16:12, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > > Another very good thing > > > > There is no longer a huge delay of a drop of 750 packages at once and a > > delay of more than a month to get a new release. > > > > There will be on del

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-10 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 3:29 PM Lamar Owen wrote: > On 12/9/20 9:37 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:07 PM Lamar Owen wrote: > > > >> So, I want to address this part a bit. In MANY cases, it's not a > >> third-party driver that ELrepo packages; it's an in-kernel driver that >

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-10 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/9/20 9:37 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:07 PM Lamar Owen wrote: So, I want to address this part a bit. In MANY cases, it's not a third-party driver that ELrepo packages; it's an in-kernel driver that Red Hat has decided to disable. Such as the megaraid_sas driver I nee

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-10 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 1:01 AM Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 2020-12-10 04:55 Brendan Conoboy ha scritto: > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:07 PM Lamar Owen wrote: > > > >> On 12/9/20 12:10 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > >> > While I'm not sure how we'll get there, it seems like the > >> > mutually satis

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-10 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:54 AM Phil Perry wrote: > On 10/12/2020 03:55, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:07 PM Lamar Owen wrote: > > > >> On 12/9/20 12:10 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > >>> While I'm not sure how we'll get there, it seems like the > >>> mutually satisfying end

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-10 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2020-12-10 04:55 Brendan Conoboy ha scritto: On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:07 PM Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/9/20 12:10 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > While I'm not sure how we'll get there, it seems like the > mutually satisfying end result would be one where third party binary > drivers work with Ce

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-10 Thread Phil Perry
On 10/12/2020 03:55, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:07 PM Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/9/20 12:10 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: While I'm not sure how we'll get there, it seems like the mutually satisfying end result would be one where third party binary drivers work with CentOS Stre

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:07 PM Lamar Owen wrote: > On 12/9/20 12:10 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > > While I'm not sure how we'll get there, it seems like the > > mutually satisfying end result would be one where third party binary > > drivers work with CentOS Stream kernels. Let's see what we can

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:07 PM Lamar Owen wrote: > > On 12/9/20 12:10 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > > While I'm not sure how we'll get there, it seems like the > > mutually satisfying end result would be one where third party binary > > drivers work with CentOS Stream kernels. Let's see what we ca

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/9/20 12:10 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: While I'm not sure how we'll get there, it seems like the mutually satisfying end result would be one where third party binary drivers work with CentOS Stream kernels. Let's see what we can do. So, I want to address this part a bit.  In MANY cases, it

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 09:24:33AM +, Pete Biggs wrote: > What will be the incentive for vendors to participate? Sure you can > talk the corporate talk about opportunities and ecosystems, but the > bottom line is that it requires investment (at least in time) when they > could just continue sup

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 7:21 AM Phil Perry wrote: > On 09/12/2020 03:26, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:19 PM Pete Biggs wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 17:54 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > >>> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 03:15:17PM +, Pete Biggs wrote: > >> > "Cen

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Barry Brimer
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 15:13 +, Phil Perry wrote: If you are able to retain kernel ABI compatibility between RHEL8 and Stream kernels, then we (and other OEMs) will be able to continue to support Stream users, otherwise Stream users will have to

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 15:13 +, Phil Perry wrote: > > If > you are able to retain kernel ABI compatibility between RHEL8 and > Stream > kernels, then we (and other OEMs) will be able to continue to > support > Stream users, otherwise Stream users will have to look to > alternative > solutio

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Phil Perry
On 09/12/2020 03:26, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:19 PM Pete Biggs wrote: On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 17:54 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 03:15:17PM +, Pete Biggs wrote: "CentOS will become the developer playground" This one is categorically not th

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 9/12/2020 4:32 μ.μ., Brendan Conoboy wrote: As CentOS Stream grows, I expect many companies who sell hardware will become active members of the community. Probably, but this is not the point. The value of CentOS is that in essence it is identical to RHEL. This allows its use in multiple s

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 1:41 AM Pete Biggs wrote: > > I think what a lot of people are concerned about is the rolling-release > > > aspect of this. There will be no definitive versioning of CentOS in the > > > future - all you will be able to say is "fully updated" and it won't be > > > possible t

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 08.12.20 um 22:30 schrieb Frank Cox: Prior to this point it's been a difference without any difference, but I wonder if Oracle actually re-creates RHEL or if they re-create Centos. Oracle was/is much faster in releasing updates, point releases and releases. They don't need Centos to get O

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Wrong. Am 08.12.20 um 18:25 schrieb J Martin Rushton via CentOS: The first thing Oracle wants is for you to sign up for an Oracle account.  Hmm, I'll give Springdale a try.  For those with long memories, remember the DEC RDMS promises prior to take over, and the aftermath? Isos are here: https

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Kai Bojens via CentOS
Am 08.12.20 um 15:06 schrieb Rich Bowen: The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release. JFTR: I don't hav

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I think what a lot of people are concerned about is the rolling-release > > aspect of this. There will be no definitive versioning of CentOS in the > > future - all you will be able to say is "fully updated" and it won't be > > possible to slot a CentOS system in to exactly match a RHEL versio

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 19:52 -0800, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:00 PM Pete Biggs wrote: > > > The problem is that we won't know if it will work. When CentOS matched > > the RHEL point releases we knew that an RPM/driver targeted for RHEL > > 8.2 has a good chance of working

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 08/12/20 22:12, Nicolas Kovacs ha scritto: Le 08/12/2020 à 21:56, Johnny Hughes a écrit : And, it will likely be sometime mid to late 1st quarter 2021 before CentOS Stream is in its 'Fully Functional' state with community pull requests and the RHEL package maintainer doing all the work in Ce

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 08/12/20 17:04, John Thomas ha scritto: I'll probably switch to Debian over the new year. On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 8:01 AM Phelps, Matthew wrote: I'm exactly planning this today. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Marc Balmer via CentOS
terprise-linux] > I have a technical question on this regarding the official CentOS docker images found at https://hub.docker.com/_/centos <https://hub.docker.com/_/centos> Will the image tagged centos:8 follow CentOS Stream eventually, and if so, starting when? Or is it al

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Alexandru Pătrănescu
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 22:58 Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 1:04 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > >> The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next > >> year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat > >> Enter

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:00 PM Pete Biggs wrote: > The problem is that we won't know if it will work. When CentOS matched > the RHEL point releases we knew that an RPM/driver targeted for RHEL > 8.2 has a good chance of working on CentOS 8.2 - but that versioning > match is lost with Stream. So

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:19 PM Pete Biggs wrote: > On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 17:54 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 03:15:17PM +, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > "CentOS will become the developer playground" > > > > This one is categorically not the case. Even Fedora isn't a dev

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Pete Biggs
> > It is not the same as Rawhide is all I am saying. > > It is based on the current release and it is being modified for some reason. > > That modification can be a bugfix from a reported bug, it can be an > enhancement for a given package or it can be a security update. > > Each of these upd

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 7:32 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 5:29 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:05 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > >> On 12/8/20 3:40 PM, Jim Bourne wrote: > >>> On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: > I promise you, to the best of my knowledg

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 6:18 PM, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 17:54 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 03:15:17PM +, Pete Biggs wrote: > >>> "CentOS will become the developer playground" >> >> This one is categorically not the case. Even Fedora isn't a developer >> playgro

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 5:29 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:05 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 12/8/20 3:40 PM, Jim Bourne wrote: >>> On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: I promise you, to the best of my knowledge, IBM had nothing to do with this decision. Red Hat is a d

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 17:54 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 03:15:17PM +, Pete Biggs wrote: > > "CentOS will become the developer playground" > > This one is categorically not the case. Even Fedora isn't a developer > playground. Everything landing in CentOS Stream is a

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Richard G
For the record, I don't think this is a good decision because it changes what CentOS is (its "core mission" in business-speak). On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 2:07 PM Rich Bowen wrote: > > The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next > year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linu

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 11:42:01PM +, Pete Biggs wrote: > I too would be interested to know what happens to CentOS 8 Stream once > focus of RedHat moves to RHEL 9? The life cycle document says the last > release of RHEL8 will be 8.10, that's a five year road map (since point > releases seem to

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Pete Biggs
> > FAQ:"Updates for the CentOS Stream 8 distribution continue through the > full RHEL support phase." > > What does this "full" exactly means? Will C8S be "closed" in May 31, > 2024 [*] but RHEL8 still supported through Maintenance support mode > until 2029? I too would be interested to know

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:05 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 3:40 PM, Jim Bourne wrote: > > On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> I promise you, to the best of my knowledge, IBM had nothing to do with > >> this decision. Red Hat is a distinct unit inside IBM and Red Hat still > >> h

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:05 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 3:40 PM, Jim Bourne wrote: > > On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> I promise you, to the best of my knowledge, IBM had nothing to do with > >> this decision. Red Hat is a distinct unit inside IBM and Red Hat still > >> h

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
Forget about IBM. We were told way back in 2014, when Red Hat bought CentOS, that CentOS would remain independent from RedHat. This is clearly bullshit now. So we were totally misled into adopting the platform with the belief that what we were getting would stay the same, an unsupported recompile

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 3:40 PM, Jim Bourne wrote: > On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> I promise you, to the best of my knowledge, IBM had nothing to do with >> this decision.  Red Hat is a distinct unit inside IBM and Red Hat still >> has a CEO, CFO, etc.  Red Hat also maintains a neutral relationsh

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 03:15:17PM +, Pete Biggs wrote: > Forgive a bit of cynicism ... Sure, some cynicism is absolutely warranted. It's a big change. > "If you want to keep using RHEL for free, you will have to put up with > making sure that our paying customers get better quality releases

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:13 PM Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:02 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 12/8/20 2:01 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote: >> > On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >> On 12/8/20 8:35 AM, Bill Gee wrote: >> >>> Aside from the the latest shiny - what ar

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread michael Schumacher
> A colleague of mine - the most proficient admin I personally know - already > decided to move to Oracle Linux. And I'm currently considering it as an > option. And Larry Ellison is sitting in his office laughing his ass off. Happy guy with a nice christmas gift from the RH board of director

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread DHilsbos
ormair.com www.PerformAir.com -Original Message- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Paul Heinlein Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:05 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Rich Bowen wro

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Jim Bourne
On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: I promise you, to the best of my knowledge, IBM had nothing to do with this decision. Red Hat is a distinct unit inside IBM and Red Hat still has a CEO, CFO, etc. Red Hat also maintains a neutral relationship with many IBM competitors. So this was not a

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 08.12.20 um 21:56 schrieb Johnny Hughes: On 12/8/20 1:04 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Rich Bowen wrote: The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to Cen

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 22:12:50 +0100 Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > A colleague of mine - the most proficient admin I personally know - already > decided to move to Oracle Linux. And I'm currently considering it as an > option. This sounds like a reasonable path forward, but I wonder if Oracle will simply

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:02 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 2:01 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote: > > On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 12/8/20 8:35 AM, Bill Gee wrote: > >>> Aside from the the latest shiny - what are the advantages of CentOS 8 > >>> Stream? What are the benefits?

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 08/12/2020 à 21:56, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > And, it will likely be sometime mid to late 1st quarter 2021 before > CentOS Stream is in its 'Fully Functional' state with community pull > requests and the RHEL package maintainer doing all the work in CentOS > Stream, etc . CentOS Linux 8 will st

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
> I promise you, to the best of my knowledge, IBM had nothing to do > with > this decision. Red Hat is a distinct unit inside IBM and Red Hat > still > has a CEO, CFO, etc. Red Hat also maintains a neutral relationship > with > many IBM competitors. So this was not an IBM decision. > So why is

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 2:01 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote: > On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 12/8/20 8:35 AM, Bill Gee wrote: >>> Aside from the the latest shiny - what are the advantages of CentOS 8 >>> Stream?  What are the benefits? >>> >>> I read through the announcement and FAQ, but they do not

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 1:04 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Rich Bowen wrote: > >> The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next >> year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat >> Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread centos
On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 12/8/20 8:35 AM, Bill Gee wrote: Aside from the the latest shiny - what are the advantages of CentOS 8 Stream? What are the benefits? I read through the announcement and FAQ, but they do not address that question. Is it just a name change? Is it

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Rich Bowen wrote: The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release. CentOS Linux 8, as a r

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
The first thing Oracle wants is for you to sign up for an Oracle account. Hmm, I'll give Springdale a try. For those with long memories, remember the DEC RDMS promises prior to take over, and the aftermath? On 08/12/2020 15:58, Julio E. Gonzalez wrote: I am already using Oracle Linux in som

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 08/12/2020 à 16:54, Marc Balmer via CentOS a écrit : > This really pisses me off. You published CentOS 8 with a promise to support > it until May 2029. > > Now you betray all users that took you by the mouth by stating it's EOL > december 31. 2021. > > Do you really think that was a smart mov

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 08/12/2020 à 16:12, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > Another very good thing > > There is no longer a huge delay of a drop of 750 packages at once and a > delay of more than a month to get a new release. > > There will be on delay in stream .. it will be a constantly rolling > distribution .. updates

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
To be fair, that was a commitment RH gave. They are now a department within Big Blue and must dance to their tune. Of course you could always try holding your breath and awaiting the sell off to Lenovo in about five years time. On 08/12/2020 16:25, Lange, Markus wrote: Hi, this is really b

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, this is really bad news. Back in 2014 [1], sadly no one at RH seems to remember... "Some of the things that are not changing: - - The CentOS Linux platform isn't changing. The process and methods built up around the platform however are going to become more open, more inclusive and transpare

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Laack, Andrea P
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Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread John Thomas
I'll probably switch to Debian over the new year. On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 8:01 AM Phelps, Matthew wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:58 AM Julio E. Gonzalez > wrote: > > > I am already using Oracle Linux in some servers. > > > > Free as CentOS, faster updates than CentOS, and with some extra su

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:58 AM Julio E. Gonzalez wrote: > I am already using Oracle Linux in some servers. > > Free as CentOS, faster updates than CentOS, and with some extra support, > BTRFS and a newer kernel, for example. > > > I expect their usage is about to explode. I've always feared a g

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Julio E. Gonzalez
I am already using Oracle Linux in some servers. Free as CentOS, faster updates than CentOS, and with some extra support, BTRFS and a newer kernel, for example. On 12/8/20 12:15 PM, Pete Biggs wrote: Red Hat's perspective is "CentOS is ours now; IBM have told us to make sure it's pulling it

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Marc Balmer via CentOS
This really pisses me off. You published CentOS 8 with a promise to support it until May 2029. Now you betray all users that took you by the mouth by stating it's EOL december 31. 2021. Do you really think that was a smart move? > Am 08.12.2020 um 15:06 schrieb Rich Bowen : > > The future of

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Harold Toms
On 08/12/2020 15:15, Pete Biggs wrote: So as far as I can see all the RHEL rebuilds are dead now - WhiteBox, Scientific Linux, now CentOS. Are there any left? Springdale: http://springdale.math.ias.edu/ -- Harold Toms SBCS NMR Manager Working from home _

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Laack, Andrea P
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Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Pete Biggs
Forgive a bit of cynicism ... On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 09:06 -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: > The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next > year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat > Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 8:35 AM, Bill Gee wrote: > Aside from the the latest shiny - what are the advantages of CentOS 8 Stream? > What are the benefits? > > I read through the announcement and FAQ, but they do not address that > question. Is it just a name change? Is it an attempt to put CentOS on a > s

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 08.12.20 um 15:15 schrieb Tom Bishop: On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 8:07 AM Rich Bowen wrote: The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahe

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 8:35 AM, Bill Gee wrote: > Aside from the the latest shiny - what are the advantages of CentOS 8 Stream? > What are the benefits? > > I read through the announcement and FAQ, but they do not address that > question. Is it just a name change? Is it an attempt to put CentOS on a > s

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Bill Gee
Aside from the the latest shiny - what are the advantages of CentOS 8 Stream? What are the benefits? I read through the announcement and FAQ, but they do not address that question. Is it just a name change? Is it an attempt to put CentOS on a subscription model? -- Bill Gee On Tuesday,

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Tom Bishop
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 8:07 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next > year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat > Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a > current RHEL release. CentOS

[CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Rich Bowen
The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release. CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end o

Re: [CentOS] https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/

2017-09-13 Thread hw
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 13 September 2017 at 11:42, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 09/13/2017 10:28 AM, hw wrote: Hi, https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ says that pst-barcode is included in texlive. I installed texlive, and it can´t find pst-barcode.sty. Is

Re: [CentOS] https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/

2017-09-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 13 September 2017 at 11:42, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/13/2017 10:28 AM, hw wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ >> says that pst-barcode is included in texlive. >> >> I installed texlive, and it can´t find pst-barcode.sty. Is that a >> b

Re: [CentOS] https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/

2017-09-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/13/2017 10:28 AM, hw wrote: > > Hi, > > https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ > says that pst-barcode is included in texlive. > > I installed texlive, and it can´t find pst-barcode.sty.  Is that a > bug in the packaging Centos does, or is texlive in Centos som

[CentOS] https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/

2017-09-13 Thread hw
Hi, https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ says that pst-barcode is included in texlive. I installed texlive, and it can´t find pst-barcode.sty. Is that a bug in the packaging Centos does, or is texlive in Centos some derelict version? _

Re: [CentOS] HTTPS certificates (off topic)

2016-09-29 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Wed, September 28, 2016 10:40 pm, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/28/2016 5:46 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> How do I get a valid certificate for a box that is behind a firewall and >> does not have a DNS entry? >> >> I was looking at letsencrypt.org but currently it looks like a valid DNS >> entry is n

Re: [CentOS] HTTPS certificates (off topic)

2016-09-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/28/2016 5:46 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: How do I get a valid certificate for a box that is behind a firewall and does not have a DNS entry? I was looking at letsencrypt.org but currently it looks like a valid DNS entry is needed, of which I don't have. There is nothing special about my setup, i

Re: [CentOS] HTTPS certificates (off topic)

2016-09-28 Thread Alice Wonder
On 09/28/2016 05:46 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: How do I get a valid certificate for a box that is behind a firewall and does not have a DNS entry? I was looking at letsencrypt.org but currently it looks like a valid DNS entry is needed, of which I don't have. There is nothing special about my setup,

[CentOS] HTTPS certificates (off topic)

2016-09-28 Thread Jerry Geis
How do I get a valid certificate for a box that is behind a firewall and does not have a DNS entry? I was looking at letsencrypt.org but currently it looks like a valid DNS entry is needed, of which I don't have. There is nothing special about my setup, its just a box that is not directly on the

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-21 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, June 20, 2016 13:16, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/20/2016 07:47 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: >> On Sat, June 18, 2016 18:39, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> >>> I'm not interested in turning this in to a discussion on >>> epistemology. >>> This is based on the experience (the evidence) of some of t

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-21 Thread Walter H.
On Wed, June 15, 2016 16:17, Warren Young wrote: > On Jun 15, 2016, at 7:57 AM, Александр Кириллов > wrote: >> >> Nowadays it's quite easy to get normal ssl certificates for free. E.g. >> >> http://www.startssl.com >> http://buy.wosign.com/free > > Today, I would prefer Let’s Encrypt: > > https:

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-20 Thread Walter H.
On Mon, June 20, 2016 19:16, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/20/2016 07:47 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: >> Exactly what mindless person or committee of bike-shedders decided >> that software should be distributed so that copies of it expire? > > Expiration is a fundamental aspect of x509 certificates.

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/20/2016 07:47 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: On Sat, June 18, 2016 18:39, Gordon Messmer wrote: I'm not interested in turning this in to a discussion on epistemology. This is based on the experience (the evidence) of some of the world's foremost experts in the field (Akamai, Cisco, EFF, Mozill

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-20 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 10:47 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > But hey, what is my time worth in comparison to the security those > certificates provided? SECURITY that was trivially evaded in the end. > Exactly what mindless person or committee of bike-shedders decided > that software sh

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-20 Thread James B. Byrne
On Sat, June 18, 2016 18:39, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/18/2016 02:49 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: >> On Fri, June 17, 2016 21:40, Gordon Messmer wrote: >>> https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/09/why-90-days.html >> With respect citing another person's or people's opinion in support >> of >> your own i

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-18 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 19:49 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Which browser do you use? I still am in a process of finding replacement > for Firefox (the closest is midori, it doesn't fully fill the bill for me > though). There is a Mozilla folk called Palemoon by some Europeans (Sweeds, I think)

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-18 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sat, June 18, 2016 6:50 pm, Always Learning wrote: > > On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 15:39 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >> I'm not interested in turning this in to a discussion on epistemology. >> This is based on the experience (the evidence) of some of the world's >> foremost experts in the field (

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-18 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 15:39 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > I'm not interested in turning this in to a discussion on epistemology. > This is based on the experience (the evidence) of some of the world's > foremost experts in the field (Akamai, Cisco, EFF, Mozilla, etc). The same Mozilla Founda

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/18/2016 02:49 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: On Fri, June 17, 2016 21:40, Gordon Messmer wrote: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/09/why-90-days.html With respect citing another person's or people's opinion in support of your own is not evidence in the sense I understand the word to mean. I'm

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-18 Thread James B. Byrne
On Fri, June 17, 2016 11:06, Walter H. wrote: > On 17.06.2016 16:46, James B. Byrne wrote: >> On Thu, June 16, 2016 13:53, Walter H. wrote: >>> On 15.06.2016 16:17, Warren Young wrote: but it also affects the other public CAs: you can’t get a publicly-trusted cert for a machine witho

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-18 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 08:20 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Sat, June 18, 2016 7:52 am, Always Learning wrote: > > > > Your connection is not secure > > > > The owner of harte-lyne.ca has configured their website improperly. To > > protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not co

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-18 Thread Walter H.
On 18.06.2016 03:41, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 06/17/2016 07:56 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: On Thu, June 16, 2016 14:09, Gordon Messmer wrote: I doubt that most users check the dates on SSL certificates, unless they are familiar enough with TLS to understand that a shorter validity period is bette

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-18 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sat, June 18, 2016 7:52 am, Always Learning wrote: > > On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 15:56 +0100, Michael H wrote: > >> On 17/06/16 15:46, James B. Byrne wrote: > >> > >> > We operate a private CA for our domain and have since 2005. We >> > maintain a public CRL strictly in accordance with our CPS and

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-18 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 15:56 +0100, Michael H wrote: > On 17/06/16 15:46, James B. Byrne wrote: > > > > We operate a private CA for our domain and have since 2005. We > > maintain a public CRL strictly in accordance with our CPS and have our > > own OID assigned. Our CPS and CRL together with

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