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I somehow missed that Red Hat started sponsoring CentOS a while back, and owns the trademarks. I mean, money and cooperation is great and all, but how could anyone have expected CentOS Linux to continue for long when Red Hat has such a fundamental conflict of interest?

Edit: here's the HN post at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7019914

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Yeah, I assume this ends with somebody forking CentOS into another "redhat without redhat branding and license costs".

Maybe CERN will revitalize Scientific Linux.

Scientific Linux[0] is still maintained ( Although, by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and not CERN )

[0] https://scientificlinux.org

There's no RHEL8 equivalent of Scientific Linux.

Yes, maintained, but no new versions since they switched to CentOS.

https://lwn.net/Articles/786422/

There is already an announcement for Rocky Linux, from the same person who started CentOS, doing a Monty from MySQL.

To be fair, I truly thought MySQL was dead in the water when Oracle purchased them 12 years ago, but as far as I can tell MySQL continues to be well supported with new features being added. So I no longer know what to think about these kinds of acquisitions.

MelissaDB

MariaDB?

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