Red Hat CentOS Controversy

The cluster discusses Red Hat's actions towards CentOS, including its shift to Stream and end of independent rebuilds, leading to forks like Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux as RHEL alternatives for enterprise users.

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kracekumar Sep 24, 2012 View on HN

Centos does the same, isn't Redhat making money ?

johnny22 Nov 1, 2015 View on HN

CentOS has NEVER been independent of RHEL

breakingcups Dec 8, 2020 View on HN

Until IBM / Red Hat acquires that fork just like they did CentOS

throwaway2037 Feb 28, 2025 View on HN

If RHEL is becoming irrelevant, what distro will replace it for enterprise users?

darkr Mar 7, 2016 View on HN

> No. See CentOS.I'd argue otherwise[1].Also, as of ~2 years ago, CentOS is just another Red Hat supported project.[1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=RHT

mort96 Jul 1, 2023 View on HN

Red Hat never indicated that they had any trouble with CentOS, rather the opposite; their disposition towards it has always been very positive until recently. It would have been like using Ubuntu Server and worrying that Canonical might kill it off and force you to buy Ubuntu Pro; not completely out of the question, but also not something you would expect.

kplex May 24, 2023 View on HN

Not sure I particularly trust Redhat after what they did to CentOS.

unholycrab Sep 24, 2012 View on HN

Probably because the company that provides RHEL does not provide CentOS.

X-Istence Apr 20, 2018 View on HN

Red Hat/CentOS does this too...

ck2 Aug 22, 2013 View on HN

So this is going to be like Redhat -> CentOS ?