Richard B. Pyne
2020-Dec-11 16:07 UTC
[CentOS] Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux
Considering that it is being spearheaded by the originator of CentOS, with the original goals of CentOS (before being swallowed by RH then IBM) as a stable, enterprise OS, I'm putting my support behind Rocky rockylinux.org and would urge others to do the same. I've been around the Linux world for many years and looked at and tried many distributions. Most of them are either unstable or bloated, or both. The only thing I'd trust Oracle to do is screw the computing community any way possible. On 12/11/2020 7:01 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:> 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) >
Phelps, Matthew
2020-Dec-11 16:14 UTC
[CentOS] Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:07 AM Richard B. Pyne <rpyne at kinfolk.org> wrote:> Considering that it is being spearheaded by the originator of CentOS, > with the original goals of CentOS (before being swallowed by RH then > IBM) as a stable, enterprise OS, I'm putting my support behind Rocky > rockylinux.org and would urge others to do the same. > > I've been around the Linux world for many years and looked at and tried > many distributions. Most of them are either unstable or bloated, or both. > > The only thing I'd trust Oracle to do is screw the computing community > any way possible. > >I agree. My current plan is to recommend we stay on CentOS 7 and switch to Rocky Linux for version 8, maybe in a year or so. Worst case scenario is Red Hat kills CentOS 7 (which would *not* surprise me at all now) and we need to bridge the gap with Oracle. My gut feeling is Oracle doesn't see Oracle Linux as a money maker, apart from getting some support contracts from it, so they'll leave it be for a while. We shall see...> On 12/11/2020 7:01 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > 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) > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- *Matt Phelps* *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator* (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 60 Garden Street | MS 39 | Cambridge, MA 02138 email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook <http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook> | Twitter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter> | YouTube <http://cfa.harvard.edu/youtube> | Newsletter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/newsletter>