CentOS - Feb 2021 - Challenging times in trying to access oracle Linux documentation

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 12:03:30 +0000
Shamim Shahriar wrote:
> Apologies if this is considered unwelcome -- asking oracle question in
> centos group -- but a lot of centos Vs oracle is going on here so hoping
> this will not be shot down.
Speaking for myself only, I have no problem with anyone posting Oracle Linux
questions, answers or solutions in this mailing list.  I think that as time goes
on, OL and Rocky Linux will start to get more discussion and coverage here. 
Since they are all very similar to each other, most of the solutions for one
will likely be applicable to all anyway and if there's a better alternative
offered on one of the others, then that's worth knowing as well.

-- 
MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

Thank you so for your kind response, very much appreciated.

I was trying to access
https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/Oracle%20Linux%20and%20Virtualization/2644753_1.html
which, I understand if under support, but seems to be the only FreeIPA
documentation I found on my search.

Thank you all once again.

Best regards
Shamim

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, 16:24 Frank Cox, <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 12:03:30 +0000
> Shamim Shahriar wrote:
>
> > Apologies if this is considered unwelcome -- asking oracle question in
> > centos group -- but a lot of centos Vs oracle is going on here so
hoping
> > this will not be shot down.
>
> Speaking for myself only, I have no problem with anyone posting Oracle
> Linux questions, answers or solutions in this mailing list.  I think that
> as time goes on, OL and Rocky Linux will start to get more discussion and
> coverage here.  Since they are all very similar to each other, most of the
> solutions for one will likely be applicable to all anyway and if
there's a
> better alternative offered on one of the others, then that's worth
knowing
> as well.
>
> --
> MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
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On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:23:37AM -0600, Frank Cox
wrote:
> 
> Speaking for myself only, I have no problem with anyone posting Oracle
> Linux questions, answers or solutions in this mailing list.  I think
> that as time goes on, OL and Rocky Linux will start to get more
> discussion and coverage here.  Since they are all very similar to each
> other, most of the solutions for one will likely be applicable to all
> anyway and if there's a better alternative offered on one of the
> others, then that's worth knowing as well.
This is a CentOS list.  The other distros you mention have their own
venues for support and discussion and those should be used.






							John
-- 
"He'll sit here and say, 'Do this! Do that!' And nothing will
happen. Poor
Ike. It won't be a bit like the army. He'll find it very
frustrating."

Harry Truman - shortly before the Eisenhower inauguration in 1952
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> On Feb 5, 2021, at 7:27 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com>
wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:23:37AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>> 
>> Speaking for myself only, I have no problem with anyone posting Oracle
>> Linux questions, answers or solutions in this mailing list.  I think
>> that as time goes on, OL and Rocky Linux will start to get more
>> discussion and coverage here.  Since they are all very similar to each
>> other, most of the solutions for one will likely be applicable to all
>> anyway and if there's a better alternative offered on one of the
>> others, then that's worth knowing as well.
> 
> This is a CentOS list.  The other distros you mention have their own
> venues for support and discussion and those should be used.
I agree with your sentiment, John, but the fact that folks fled is due to CentOS
(owned by RedHat, of course) doing. And they use most logical way for their
discussion: the CentOS refugees ask their kin in quite logical place: CentOS
list, where they all were prospering in the past.

Incidentally, I for one do not blame CentOS in the fact that I have to move my
workstations/numbercrunchers to different Linux (Debian). I could have analyzed
the fact when it was announced that CentOS project is owned by RedHat, and
should have expect potential turn. Not a big deal, servers are FreeBSD for long
time already for different reason. But I can understand the folks for whom it
turned out a big deal. Like the ones recommending their customers CentOS?

Just my $0.02

Valeri
> 							John
> -- 
> "He'll sit here and say, 'Do this! Do that!' And nothing
will happen. Poor
> Ike. It won't be a bit like the army. He'll find it very
frustrating."
> 
> Harry Truman - shortly before the Eisenhower inauguration in 1952
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