[Beowulf] RIP CentOS 8 [EXT]

[Tim Cutts]

We’re moving wholesale back to Ubuntu; we didn’t use CentOS anyway very much, but Red Hat increased our licensing costs 10x which put them out of the picture.

Tim

> On 8 Dec 2020, at 16:37, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at rutgers.edu> wrote:
> 
> The first comment on the blog does not equivocate. :-D
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>> On Dec 8, 2020, at 11:27 AM, Chris Samuel <chris at csamuel.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> It looks like the CentOS project has announced the end of CentOS 8 as a version that tracked RHEL for the end of 2021, it will be replaced by the CentOS stream which will run ahead of RHEL8. CentOS 7 is unaffected (though RHEL7 only has 3 more years of life left).
>> 
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blog.centos.org_2020_12_future-2Dis-2Dcentos-2Dstream_&d=DwIGaQ&c=D7ByGjS34AllFgecYw0iC6Zq7qlm8uclZFI0SqQnqBo&r=gSesY1AbeTURZwExR_OGFZlp9YUzrLWyYpGmwAw4Q50&m=L2F-vmUIThYp6zG8v5JxFnjhlMglJIeC7TBodEp-vDs&s=EE2gRt-cB9jTXou4jrhdtKol9ae7RTe23OY0IaDVc0U&e= 
>> 
>>> 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 of 2021. CentOS Stream
>>> continues after that date, serving as the upstream (development)
>>> branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
>>> 
>>> Meanwhile, we understand many of you are deeply invested in
>>> CentOS Linux 7, and we’ll continue to produce that version through
>>> the remainder of the RHEL 7 life cycle.
>> 
>> I always thought that Fedora was meant to be that upstream for RHEL, but perhaps the arrangement now will be Fedora -> CentOS -> RHEL.
>> 
>> I wonder where this leaves the Lustre project, currently they only support RHEL7/CentOS7 as the server, and more interestingly, people who build Lustre appliances on top of CentOS.
>> 
>> Then there's the question of projects like OpenHPC who've only just announced support for CentOS8 (and OpenSuSE15). They could choose to track CentOS Stream instead, probably without too much effort.
>> 
>> I do wonder if this opens the door for the return of something like Scientific Linux.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> Chris
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>> Chris Samuel  :  https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.csamuel.org_&d=DwIGaQ&c=D7ByGjS34AllFgecYw0iC6Zq7qlm8uclZFI0SqQnqBo&r=gSesY1AbeTURZwExR_OGFZlp9YUzrLWyYpGmwAw4Q50&m=L2F-vmUIThYp6zG8v5JxFnjhlMglJIeC7TBodEp-vDs&s=kUmY9mIyddQ63ENEZuKoOu6lt69B34b99ZrNDuvp0Gg&e=   :  Berkeley, CA, USA
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