CentOS 8 Ending Next Year To Focus Shift On CentOS Stream

[siyia]

Don't hold your breath for long. Monkey See, Monkey do. Oracle will seize the opportunity to ding you a small annual amount (small in Oracle's terms) for their cost of providing their "Free from License" Oracle version.

Its very possible in the future but at the moment oracle linux looks like the better choice compared to centos 8 - centos stream, in the future a community version of RHEL is likely to emerge like scientific linux, the only reason that scientific linux ceased to exist was because centos was available. Things will probably change in the future, but for the next 10 years i cannot be a beta tester for rhel 8.

[lateo]

So if Oracle continues to build OSS RHEL RPMs their way, then we are all +/- safe there.

I don't think anything that Oracle releases freely can be considered safe.

[moilami]

Debian is the best not only because of the great devs but because of the Social Contract they have and democracy making it hard to undermine the contract. The crazies are the biggest threat in Debian.