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

> 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
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On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 21:53:01 -0600
Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> 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.
We'll see discussion of Rocky Linux and Oracle Linux ramping up on this
mailing list over the course of the next year for the above reason.  You can
stamp your little feet and say that such things don't belong here, or the
better option is to read what you're interested in and participate in the
discussions. Ignoring anything non-Centos and reading only Centos-specific
threads will likely be possible too if you really insist since a majority of
posters will probably put "Oracle" or "Rocky" or something
like that into their subject lines anyway.

Again, Centos/Rocky/Oracle all share a similar-to-identical codebase, so most of
what's applicable to one will likely be applicable to all so I don't see
it as being a big deal.

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