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Hello
SUSE, as the main contributor to Uyuni, remains committed to supporting openSUSE as the base operating system for Uyuni (and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the base operating system for SUSE Manager, the downstream of Uyuni).
In regards to CentOS as a client, there are two sides to it:
* Support for CentOS Stream. This discussion looks a lot like the one we had a few months back about supporting openSUSE Tumbleweed as a client. I think we can do that for Uyuni Master but I am not sure we can do that for Uyuni Stable. It will depend on how fast CentOS Stream moves in its new life; if it moves too fast, maybe we release Uyuni 2020.06 on June 20th and by June 30th client tools no longer work. But Uyuni Master should be doable, like for Tumbleweed.
* Support for CentOS as a clone of RHEL: we are already seeing new clones appear and try to take the CentOS space (e. g. Rocky Linux). If/when one of them becomes important enough, support will be added. Of course what's implemented (CentOS 6, 7, 8) will remain, there is no reason to remove it.
As for Uyuni on CentOS and the new for a new LTS Linux, I think you are too pessimistic 🙂
* If you need a new free LTS Linux, I suggest openSUSE Leap
* If what you need is a new no-cost LTS RHEL clone, then there are already options and there will be more: Springdale Linux (by Princeton University), Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux (by one of the original founders of CentOS), etc
* If you want to pursue Uyuni on Debian, go for it. I can even help (I used to be a Debian developer). It was actually one of the projects we proposed for Google Summer of Code and one student applied for it but he did not get the slot:
https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/issues/2009
Thank you
Pau Garcia Quiles
SUSE Manager Product Owner & Technical Project Manager
Phone: +34 91 048 7632
SUSE Software Solutions Spain
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From: Stefan Bluhm