Agreed re OEL.
A few months after the CentOS 8.x deprecation news was released, Oracle Sales reached out to my organisation and reminded us that OEL was free to use, with migration scripts available.
We briefly considered migrating from CentOS to OEL, but ultimately decided against it since, as Danti indicates above, Oracle has a questionable history, and we feared that their "free as in beer" approach may change to more of a RHEL approach once their user base was sufficiently expanded.
Rocky is community-driven with substantial sponsorship from large, respected enterprises, whereas Alma and OEL are both tied at the hip to corporations. While noone really knows what the future holds, enough of us have been burned by what has been done to CentOS 8.x that we frankly know the stove is hot, and don't really want to touch it again, if it can be helped.
As others have stated, I appreciate and respect Red Hat's vision for CentOS Stream, and I do wish the project all the best. (I'm running 8-Stream on most of my laptops and workstations now, in fact. -- It is nice to know what is in the EL pipeline!) I think there's a great argument for using Stream on DEV systems, etc., provided there is a plan to move corresponding PROD machines to the new EL release by the end of the Full Support window. The decision to abandon Stream 8 in 2024 (vs. 2029) makes broad use of it in my environment a non-starter, in most cases.
As many have observed, the Stream change would've been much more welcome were it announced beginning with EL 9.x, but pulling the rug out from beneath CentOS 8.x with a year's notice, right after so many of us had just finished migrating workloads to it in anticipation of EL 6.x EOL was a very poor decision, imho.
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On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 8:19 AM Nicolas Kovacs info@microlinux.fr wrote:
Le 07/07/2021 à 11:44, Nikolaos Milas a écrit :
RESF / Rocky Linux is gaining worldwide recognition and sets itself as
the
primary organization / platform to become the CentOS 8 heir / successor
in the
future.
Rocky Linux is the New Kid On The Block and gets all the attention.
Whereas Oracle Linux (the best RHEL clone in terms of maintenance reactivity) has been around since 2006, free as in beer since 2012, and nobody wants to touch it.
Go figure.
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