Liam O'Toole
2020-Dec-11 13:09 UTC
[CentOS] Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux
On Fri, 11 Dec, 2020 at 07:48:25 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:21:35PM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Dec, 2020 at 13:12:26 -0600, Tom Bishop wrote: > > > +1 > > > Looks like between Springdale, Rocky and CloudLinux there will be options. > > > Such a bad decision that RH made to do this... > > > > True. I just hope that the various alternatives will pool their resources. History has shown that RHEL derivatives require a lot of effort to maintain. It would be a shame to dissipate that effort among a number of competing distros. > > One problem has been that RedHat, when they see a clone is successful, will > tend to hire the lead developer. This is what happened to Scientific Linux, > back when CentOS was late with a release (one of the head developers had > the temerity to get married around that time and somehow, that took some of > his time). Scientific Linux was gaining popularity and RH hired their head > developer. This was before RH was bought by IBM. >That's a good point. It's a perpetual whack-a-mole. But I prefer to whack an open-source mole rather than a proprietary one.> One assumes however, that this wouldn't happen with OEL, though one never > knows.OEL = Oracle Enterprise Linux? There is no reason in heaven or hell to trust them.
Scott Robbins
2020-Dec-11 13:52 UTC
[CentOS] Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 01:09:46PM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:> On Fri, 11 Dec, 2020 at 07:48:25 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:> > One assumes however, that this wouldn't happen with OEL, though one never > > knows. > > OEL = Oracle Enterprise Linux? There is no reason in heaven or hell to > trust them.Yes, that's who I meant. And like you, I find myself unwilling to trust them. :) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
Nicolas Kovacs
2020-Dec-11 14:01 UTC
[CentOS] Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux
Le 11/12/2020 ? 14:09, Liam O'Toole a ?crit?:> OEL = Oracle Enterprise Linux? There is no reason in heaven or hell to trust them.As far as I'm concerned, they're the good guys now. :o) -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info at microlinux.fr T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32 Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12