[BlueOnyx:24733] Re: End of life of Centos 8?

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

On 1/26/2021 3:12 PM, Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A little update on this:
>
>> "CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end of 2021."
>>
>> The full message is here:
>>
>> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html
> It looks like the free and open source CloudLinux fork of RHEL8 is going
> to drop this week. \o/

This is exciting news.   I'm really happy to see the promise fulfilled.

> Initially it was tentatively called "Lenix", but they changed the name
> to "AlmaLinux" after some community-input.

Yeah, AlmaLinux is far better than "Lenix".   Though even that was 
superior to "Rocky Linux".

Thanks for the continued work and updates on this.   I'm considerably 
more enthusiastic about the AlmaLinux development than I would have 
thought possible just weeks ago.

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