[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities
aurfalien at gmail.com
aurfalien at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 22:02:34 UTC 2011
On Mar 20, 2011, at 1:52 PM, William Warren wrote:
> On 3/20/2011 3:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On 3/20/11 1:57 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>>> .
>>>> I hope the situation may change now with Oracle in direct
>>>> competition with
>>>> RH
>>>> for RH and RH-based distros user base. BTW Oracle offers
>>>> installable
>>>> binaries for free.
>>> Yes, but patches (support) cost money, as you might know. Anyway, it
>>> is better to pay for real
>>> RH instead of oracle linux..
>> Or, maybe there was back in the days when they released source that
>> matched
>> their binaries... Personally, I think everyone would be better off
>> today if
>> they had turned their back on anything RH-related the day they
>> stopped
>> permitting redistribution of their binaries among the community
>> that created
>> them and made them usable in the first place. I was too lazy to
>> change and
>> Centos made it look reasonable to leave things approximately the
>> same. But, now
>> that RH is putting the screws on anyone who doesn't pay up it is
>> probably time
>> for anyone who cares about free software to rethink things.
>>
> exactly. Nothing against Centos but I've deployed my last RH based
> box. It'll be either Debian or Ubuntu from now on.
I don't get it, why so radical?
Why not go SL and maintain the same methodology?
- aurf
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