CentOS - Dec 2020 - CentOS 8 future

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 9:18 AM Patrick B?gou <
Patrick.Begou at legi.grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> I'm also using CentOS for a while and I'm deploying a CentOS8
cluster
> for some months.... because it was supported until 2029! Bad idea.
> For me, using debian has 2 important drawbacks
> - some of proprietary software we are using is certified RHEL and SLES.
> Deploying on CentOS is out-of-thebox. Deploying on debian (we have also
> debian servers) is often a nightmare and some functionalities still
> doesn't work (and support reply "debian is not supported").
We have no
> alternative for these softwares.
> [...]

If you have to deal with proprietary software, OEL is currently the only
cost-free
option you have (if an RHEL clone is wanted). The advantage with OEL is that
most proprietary software supports OEL out-of-the-box, you don't have to do
"naming" tricks to run software like SAP.

Switching to OEL is quite easy (https://github.com/oracle/centos2ol) and the
same method could be used to switch to something else if better options are
available.

Kind regards Thomas

Le 15/12/2020 ? 10:09, Thomas Bendler a ?crit?:
> If you have to deal with proprietary software, OEL is currently the only
> cost-free
> option you have (if an RHEL clone is wanted). The advantage with OEL is
that
> most proprietary software supports OEL out-of-the-box, you don't have
to do
> "naming" tricks to run software like SAP.
> 
> Switching to OEL is quite easy (https://github.com/oracle/centos2ol) and
the
> same method could be used to switch to something else if better options are
> available.
+1 on that.

Oracle may be bad, but Oracle Linux is great.

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