On 17/06/2020 18:38, Michael Kofler wrote:
Hi, I am the author of said blog article. FIRST: It was never my intention to criticize the CentOS team. I appreciate the hard work you are doing. If my blog text (which is in German langugage) gave a wrong impression, I apologize. SECOND: I LOVE CentOS. Otherwise it would not matter to me. I use CentOS to teach Linux administration at university, I promote CentOS in my books and I use it personally on some servers. THIRD: It is a fact that the update gaps for CentOS 8 are currently too long for productive use. Basically, that's why I now warn against using CentOS 8 on live systems. --- One might argue, CentOS was never intended for productive use. Perhaps I misunderstood this. And with me all administrators of some million web servers running on CentOS. Hm. Time to rethink?
As far as I'm aware that has always been the case. Johnny has never been slow in coming forward and saying if you need updates, or a service level agreement, or support then you should buy RHEL. That is what it is for. If not, then use CentOS for free. But don't use CentOS for free on production servers and then shout or act surprised when you don't have updates on a timescale you consider appropriate.
Nothing has changed in this regard for as long as I've been a CentOS user or been involved in the CentOS community. If you are now having to rethink your approach then you probably either haven't given it sufficient thought in the first place or you originally came to the wrong conclusion.
This is a non-issue. Nothing has changed. Things were exactly the same with CentOS 4, CentOS 5, CentOS 6, CentOS 7, and by it's very nature it will be the same in CentOS 9... The simple matter is it takes time to rebuild a complete OS and there will always be a lag. Either that is acceptable to you and you use it, or you purchase a RHEL license for your publicly facing infrastructure. The only issue here is people's unrealistic expectations, and to be fair the CentOS Project can hardly be accused of falsely raising peoples expectations having consistently stated it will be ready when it's done for at least the last 15 years.
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