Hello Stephan, Am 09.12.20 um 17:25 schrieb Stephan Lachnit: > Hi all, > > maybe you already have heard it, CentOS is basically dead now. It used to be an exact RHEL clone, but now it's kind of an RHEL beta [1]. > > Now what does that have to do with Debian? > > When we look into why people use CentOS, the reason is pretty simple: it is (or was) binary-compatible with RHEL, just without the support [2]. > I was reading comments from people that use RHEL on their production, but CentOS at home or for testing, because you don't need to pay for it. > These use cases now don't work anymore, forcing them into either paying for RHEL, or moving to a different ecosystem. > > The more I started thinking about it, the more I wondered about why Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS are *not* binary-compatible. > It just doesn't make sense to me. Both Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS provide a more "long term" approach than let's say Fedora. > And while Ubuntu LTS is based on Debian, it is not based on Debian Stable, even though they have release cycle of two years. > It would seem kinda obvious that Debian and Ubuntu have a common freeze period and work on LTS maintenance together. > > Does anyone know why this is not the case? I suspect some historical reasons, but I couldn't find anything quickly. IMO one difference is that Debian supoorts all packages in stable main for the release cycle of about 2 years and one year after, Ubuntu supports only packages in main not in universe. so Ubuntu only supports a small part of the repo as LTS. Kind regards Mechtilde > > - Stephan > > [1] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ > [2] It's easy to find comments on various blogs or social media, but for sake of completeness let me just mention that CERN [3], [4]. > [3] https://linux.web.cern.ch/centos/ > [4] https://linux.web.cern.ch/other/ > -- Mechtilde Stehmann ## Apache OpenOffice ## Freie Office Suite für Linux, MacOSX, Windows und OS/2 ## Debian Developer ## PGP encryption welcome ## F0E3 7F3D C87A 4998 2899 39E7 F287 7BBA 141A AD7F
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