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Hi,

CentOS Linux can continue as Fedora LTS or something similar with a five-year life cycle. After five years, users can opt for paid upgrades. We can also work with System manufacturers to pre-install the free LTS on their products, which will increase our user base.

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  • CentOS is a RedHat entity these days. They already have an LTS product called RHEL which you can pay for, why would they create another one?

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  • 1. There is no Fedora LTS and there are no plans for one. Many of the developers who do the work in Fedora but do not work for Red Hat are not interested in the project doing any sort of LTS work. Getting EPEL work is a slog already there.
    2. Both Fedora and CentOS are Red Hat ‘sponsored’ projects where Red Hat owns the trademarks and legally owns the output of the projects. Use of said trademarks for any product needs approval of Red Hat within specific guidelines. If Red Hat is not interested in continued CentOS, then I do not see any reason it would be interested in Fedora LTS.
    3. “We can also work with..” requires legal agreements which needs Red Hat lawyers to sign. There are a lot of legal items which have to be reviewed and a lot of liability negotiations which have to be done.
    4. Getting System manufacturers to pre-install is a multi year work. The getting Fedora onto Lenovo started in the early 2010’s and only got done in
    2020. Each company that does this has multiple internal groups who are advocating THEIR favourite Linux to be the one which usually means there is all kinds of internal system manufacturer social negotiations going on. The agreements also are usually tightly reigned in by the manufacturer so that getting an LTS (if it existed) onto this hardware would be a multi-year work to do starting from when you had a working LTS.

    That said, the items above are all true if you remove Fedora from the equation. Rocky Linux/Navy Linux/RedHawk Linux/Cloud Linux could all be the places for that to happen.

  • Yeah, you’re describing CentOS Stream.  It’s an LTS distribution with a five year support cycle, similar to other LTS distributions.