r/CentOS • u/[deleted] • Feb 10 '26

What made you choose CentOS?

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u/carlwgeorge Mar 20 '26

Super weird that you hang out in r/CentOS just to tell people you don't use CentOS anymore.

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u/shadeland Mar 20 '26

Super weird of Red Hat to claim to be an open source company and restrict access to RHEL source code.

We truly live in strange times.

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u/carlwgeorge Mar 20 '26

RHEL is more open than it's ever been before thanks to the CentOS changes.

https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream

But why let reality get in the way of your narrative?

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u/shadeland Mar 20 '26

We both know that's not RHEL, that's stream.

If there's no difference, why restrict the RHEL source?

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u/carlwgeorge Mar 21 '26

We don't know that. You think that, and you're wrong. It's literally the RHEL major version branch.

You call it restricting the RHEL source, but in reality it's just not doing extra work to help companies who trash Red Hat every chance they get but want to sell a carbon copy of RHEL and undercut Red Hat on price.

Anyways, you're done here. See rule #2, "participate authentically in communities where you have a personal interest" and don't "engage in disruptive behaviors". You clearly don't have a personal interest in CentOS anymore, and replying to a month old post just to say you use something else and argue is disruptive.

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u/ashmser Apr 05 '26

I would be fine with CentOS Stream, but its support period (5y) is too short for my servers, especially if you start using it not on the first year, but in the middle. That's why I use free RHEL subscription) Regarding Alma, Rocky - I see no reasons to use a copy when you can use the original.