jmfJul 3, 2023
Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)

Another fairly long post, this time on the early history of RHEL clones. People look at pre-Red Hat CentOS with rose-colored glasses, but the reality was a lot different.

Updates, pre-Red Hat CentOS, took weeks or months. CentOS was at one point at the mercy of an AWOL project lead.

Copying RHEL was difficult and clones were very little threat in environments where updates and reliability were mandatory.

https://dissociatedpress.net/2023/07/03/red-hat-and-the-clone-wars-iii-the-dawn-of-centos/

#CentOS #AlmaLinux #RockyLinux #RHEL #RedHat

Red Hat and the Clone Wars III: The dawn of CentOS: Dissociated Press

Until the announcement that CentOS Linux 8 would be EOL at the end of 2021, CentOS users enjoyed a relatively drama-free period of stability that might suggest RHEL has always had a viable, dependa…

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Show threadScott Williams 🐧Jul 4, 2023
@jzb I recall one time many years ago being at a RHEL-only shop and discovering a #Docker application took a whole minute less to start up on #CentOS Linux than #RHEL (the joys of Java webapps) for the same version and that's when I discovered there were differences between the two for the overlay driver at the time and how we ended up having some CentOS boxes in our RHEL site licensed environment.
Show threadJohn Wyatt 🐧Jul 4, 2023
@jzb well before I joined Red Hat I read about the CentOS acquisition. The project seemed like it was really struggling with very little money before it. People did not give back even when it was completely independent of Red Hat.