On 7/7/2021 8:17 ?.?., Valeri Galtsev wrote:> And I feel safe running (and planning to run for long future to come) > quite reputable ones with long history of such: FreeBSD (servers), > Debian (number crunchers, workstations).I feel totally safe and confident with the fully community-driven effort of Rocky Linux, lead by the former founder of the original CentOS project. (I am not affiliated with them in any way.) As has already been mentioned, Rocky Linux has managed to gain quickly support from major players in the industry (including Google and Microsoft), and is committed to never drop its independent/community status. It is well structured and organized, and embraces a good number of open-source volunteer specialists. We want to keep up with RHEL ecosystem and Rocky Linux is - for us - the best option. If some people want to leave the RHEL ecosystem for Debian or FreeBSD, that's OK. But for those who want to stay in the RHEL world, Rocky Linux stands as a rock-solid solution. This opinion does not reject other CentOS clones, but emphasizes the fact that Rocky Linux appears to be a solid option for now and the years to come. Cheers, Nick
Il 2021-07-08 13:22 Nikolaos Milas ha scritto:> If some people want to leave the RHEL ecosystem for Debian or FreeBSD, > that's OK. But for those who want to stay in the RHEL world, Rocky > Linux stands as a rock-solid solution. This opinion does not reject > other CentOS clones, but emphasizes the fact that Rocky Linux appears > to be a solid option for now and the years to come.While true, I also feel that RH is trying to actively shape its distribution away from small enterprise needs. For example, common packages are deprecated and/or removed (eg: virt-manager, screen, kernel-side DRBD, pam_mysql, etc) and EPEL 8 (which is fundamental to my CentOS/Rocky installations) is in a bad state. My impression is that RH is following cloud vendors & hyperscale needs - with Stream as a clear example. This is not an inherently bad thing, but it quite different from what the small and medium businesses I service need. So, while closely watching RH/CentOS/Rocky, I am going to steer new deployments on Ubuntu LTS or Debian. Regards. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti at assyoma.it - info at assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8
> On Jul 8, 2021, at 6:22 AM, Nikolaos Milas <nmilas at noa.gr> wrote: > > On 7/7/2021 8:17 ?.?., Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> And I feel safe running (and planning to run for long future to come) quite reputable ones with long history of such: FreeBSD (servers), Debian (number crunchers, workstations). > > I feel totally safe and confident with the fully community-driven effort of Rocky Linux, lead by the former founder of the original CentOS project. (I am not affiliated with them in any way.) > > As has already been mentioned, Rocky Linux has managed to gain quickly support from major players in the industry (including Google and Microsoft), and is committed to never drop its independent/community status. It is well structured and organized, and embraces a good number of open-source volunteer specialists. > > We want to keep up with RHEL ecosystem and Rocky Linux is - for us - the best option. > > If some people want to leave the RHEL ecosystem for Debian or FreeBSD,Well, I fled servers from CentOS to FreeBSD almost a decade ago. And actually not From CentOS per se, but from Linux. One of the reasons was: every 45 days on average: glibc or kernel update ?> reboot. One of my friends started using word ?Lindoze?. Linux is perfect for number crunchers and workstations. FreeBSD is waaay better for servers. In my book that is. Just straightening small nuance. Valeri> that's OK. But for those who want to stay in the RHEL world, Rocky Linux stands as a rock-solid solution. This opinion does not reject other CentOS clones, but emphasizes the fact that Rocky Linux appears to be a solid option for now and the years to come. > > Cheers, > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos