December 11th, 2020 at 2:16 AM
CPanel very recently started supporting Debian (and unofficially some of its derivatives such as Ubuntu). It’s very likely that it’s not nearly as stable as the CentOS versions, but that’s probably going to change when people flock to Debian in the coming months.
Everyone in the server sphere is absolutely pissed. Red Hat literally bought out CentOS (previously a privately maintained fork), promised 10 year support, and then nixed it. Presumably to get rid of competition? Who knows, because their official “explanations” are pretty much BS.
And I mean, I get it. It’s a for profit company and they gotta do what they gotta do. But CentOS was huge. It was just a pretty trash move all around to kill an existing, privately maintained fork by swallowing it and then pulling the trigger on it. it’s going to end up backfiring in the long run.
Oracle is going to gain MASSIVE market share as a result of this. And the original founder of CentOS just rebooted it under “Rocky Linux” - so it looks like it will be replaced by other RHEL based alternatives very quickly in the coming days.
Edit: Red Hat is being quite shady, more so than previously thought. This article sheds quite a bit of light on what they’ve been up to. I’ve pretty much lost all respect for them at this point. This isn’t the spirit of the open source community. https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2020/12/...s_red_hat/
Everyone in the server sphere is absolutely pissed. Red Hat literally bought out CentOS (previously a privately maintained fork), promised 10 year support, and then nixed it. Presumably to get rid of competition? Who knows, because their official “explanations” are pretty much BS.
And I mean, I get it. It’s a for profit company and they gotta do what they gotta do. But CentOS was huge. It was just a pretty trash move all around to kill an existing, privately maintained fork by swallowing it and then pulling the trigger on it. it’s going to end up backfiring in the long run.
Oracle is going to gain MASSIVE market share as a result of this. And the original founder of CentOS just rebooted it under “Rocky Linux” - so it looks like it will be replaced by other RHEL based alternatives very quickly in the coming days.
Edit: Red Hat is being quite shady, more so than previously thought. This article sheds quite a bit of light on what they’ve been up to. I’ve pretty much lost all respect for them at this point. This isn’t the spirit of the open source community. https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2020/12/...s_red_hat/
