CentOS - Jan 2021 - RHEL changes

Le 21/01/2021 ? 23:30, Scott Robbins a ?crit?:
> People pull up all sorts of technical reasons to justify 
> what is, in the end, an emotional decision.
There is, of course, the possibility to go beyond that. For example, I am not
exactly fond of Oracle as a company, for reasons you probably know as good as
me. They did some horrible things to Solaris, MySQL and Java, their CEO
supported Trump, etc. But it also happens that they do have one of the better
maintained RHEL clones out there, with fast updates and an excellent
documentation.

Of course our first response will always be more or less emotional (see Malcolm
Gladwell's fascinating book "Blink" on the subject). But I think
it's part of
our work routine to recognize that and go beyond it.

Cheers,

Niki

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> Le 21/01/2021 ? 23:30, Scott Robbins a ?crit?:
>> People pull up all sorts of technical reasons to justify
>> what is, in the end, an emotional decision.
>
> There is, of course, the possibility to go beyond that. For example, I am
> not
> exactly fond of Oracle as a company, for reasons you probably know as good
> as
> me. They did some horrible things to Solaris, MySQL and Java, their CEO
IMHO they didn't do anything horrible to us. They just wasted a lot of
money buying companies and then didn't continue the open source
developments in a way which worked for the community. However the project
are not dead by now, they just run under a different name these days.
> supported Trump, etc. But it also happens that they do have one of the
IMHO it's a feature of something called democracy that even CEOs are free
to support whoever they want - without asking anyone and like everybody
else.
> better
> maintained RHEL clones out there, with fast updates and an excellent
> documentation.
For me OL works very well. I've just modified the migration/installation
so that it removes all OL specific stuff like UEK and changes things back
to upstream EL versions. If I ever regret the move to OL I know know quite
well how to migrate to another clone. And I mean a full migration which
changes every bit.

Simon