@carlwgeorge @vermaden @samurro @tara

Well, the #CentoOS repos (not CentOS stream!) GOT PAYWALLED git.centos.org and whilst I'd not trust #Oracle either since #OpenSolaris and #LibreOffice, the fact is that #RedHat canceled #CentOS8 or rather axed it prematurely...

But yeah, both @vkc 1 & @BrodieOnLinux looked at this.

@RuiSeabra I think that's corporate propaganda, since #CentOS was mostly being used to draw #support by #3rdParties towards #RHEL.

Had #RedHat not yanked the plug on #CentOS8 prematurely, I would've likely advised to migrate to #RHEL9 but instead I've chosen to save 87,5% of budget and migrate to #UbuntuLTS because #Canonical can't afford that level of pissing unto customers heads whilst not even bothering to upsell that as rain...

I'm still mad that #RedHat basicaly axed @centos into an #unstable distro similar to @fedora, which shows that people at Red Hat didn't uderstand thaf neither #Fedora nor #CentOS threatened or cannibalized #RHEL market share.

#Fedora has it's appeal as #DeveloperDistro and #CentOS as #Testbed for Workloads destined for #RHEL #Servers and #Workstations...

In fact, were it not for the premature axing of #CentOS8 I would've not considered steering a fmr. employer's IT towards @ubuntu / #UbuntuLTS but instead could've even convinced myself and the C-Level that paying 6 digits per year instead of nothing was a necessary business expense...

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But this and pulling a #grsecurity on everyone else (see the whole centos repo foasco) made me rethink:
"Do I really want to give people money who just pissed on me and didn't even try to sell it to me as rain or apple juice?"

Obviously, I don't take kindly to threats, exploitation and insults...

So #SUSE and #Canonical were the two contestants that ticked all the required boxes and since there were no hard dependencies, Canonical won by a long shot with >85% cost savings at equal or hetter SLAs AFAICR...

And that says something...