In December 2020, there was some interesting news about CentOS.
-CentOS project founder launches "Rocky Linux" project | ZDNet Japan
Personally, I mostly use Debian and Ubuntu these days, not yum. So he thought the Centos release cycle would have changed a bit. Most of the time, I was reluctant to switch to Ubuntu because I thought it would be strange when Fedora came out. However, it seems that it is not the only one. .. ..
-Change of development policy of "CentOS" --User's voice, how to see Red Hat | ZDNet Japan
I see, the latest CentOS 8 will move to CentOS Stream, so it would be a problem if I was told that LTS support would be discontinued until CentOS 7. .. .. After all it was acquired by IBM? By the way, Java and MySQL have become a little crazy since Sun was acquired by Oracle. .. .. So
-What is the background of the change in the development policy of "CentOS" | ZDNet Japan
After all, it seems that CentOS was only a burden at Red Hat. .. ..
However, container technologies such as Docker will become mainstream, the cloud will become serverless from just a service, event-driven services will come out, and Facebook and Google will make their own data centers and open them. The use of hardware and services is changing steadily, and the importance of the OS is only getting deeper.
Naturally, the development costs and risks of software that forms the basis of the OS are not overwhelming. There is a limit to how small a company can handle it alone, and it's true that VSCode and other OSS projects released by Microsoft are quite exciting. Because it was an OSS underdeveloped group, there is a feeling of "aiming properly".
Needless to say, the importance of open source is that we need the power of everyone involved in open source in order to provide better services and products. I would like to conclude this year's last article with a vague feeling that it is not good because it is a major company or bad because it is a major company, but what kind of shape is good for continuing to utilize open source "sustainably". ..
Thank you for your hard work this year as well.
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