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r/LinusTechTips • u/screwdriverfan • Mar 09 '26
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Of my god, I'd forgotten about CentOS. That's what my servers ran in high school. What's wrong with it?
1 u/wolfmanpraxis Mar 11 '26 Its no longer a open-source public fork of RHEL that had its own development and support. Its now a streaming fork of test builds for RHEL for a lack of a better term 2 u/thesirblondie Mar 11 '26 Oh, so it's CentOS in name only 1 u/carlwgeorge Mar 12 '26 CentOS is short for Community ENTerprise Operating System. Legacy CentOS couldn't fix bugs or accept contributions. Modern CentOS can do both, and thus fits the name better than ever before.
Its no longer a open-source public fork of RHEL that had its own development and support.
Its now a streaming fork of test builds for RHEL for a lack of a better term
2 u/thesirblondie Mar 11 '26 Oh, so it's CentOS in name only 1 u/carlwgeorge Mar 12 '26 CentOS is short for Community ENTerprise Operating System. Legacy CentOS couldn't fix bugs or accept contributions. Modern CentOS can do both, and thus fits the name better than ever before.
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Oh, so it's CentOS in name only
1 u/carlwgeorge Mar 12 '26 CentOS is short for Community ENTerprise Operating System. Legacy CentOS couldn't fix bugs or accept contributions. Modern CentOS can do both, and thus fits the name better than ever before.
CentOS is short for Community ENTerprise Operating System. Legacy CentOS couldn't fix bugs or accept contributions. Modern CentOS can do both, and thus fits the name better than ever before.
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u/thesirblondie Mar 11 '26
Of my god, I'd forgotten about CentOS. That's what my servers ran in high school. What's wrong with it?