On the other hand, I believe and seeing the glass half full, that this is good to stir the waters a bit since it has been a long time since we saw new Forks of Operating Systems that could be so important and that make the communities work together again in something common without going through a company.
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 1:37 PM Phelps, Matthew mphelps@cfa.harvard.edu wrote:
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:30 AM Victor Pereira victor.pereira@unix.cl wrote:
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 1:15 PM Phelps, Matthew <mphelps@cfa.harvard.edu
wrote:
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:07 AM Richard B. Pyne rpyne@kinfolk.org wrote:
Considering that it is being spearheaded by the originator of CentOS, with the original goals of CentOS (before being swallowed by RH then IBM) as a stable, enterprise OS, I'm putting my support behind Rocky rockylinux.org and would urge others to do the same.
I've been around the Linux world for many years and looked at and
tried
many distributions. Most of them are either unstable or bloated, or
both.
The only thing I'd trust Oracle to do is screw the computing
community
any way possible.
I agree. My current plan is to recommend we stay on CentOS 7 and switch
to
Rocky Linux for version 8, maybe in a year or so.
Worst case scenario is Red Hat kills CentOS 7 (which would *not*
surprise
me at all now) and we need to bridge the gap with Oracle.
My gut feeling is Oracle doesn't see Oracle Linux as a money maker,
apart
from getting some support contracts from it, so they'll leave it be
for a
while.
We shall see...
On 12/11/2020 7:01 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Le 11/12/2020 à 14:09, Liam O'Toole a écrit :
OEL = Oracle Enterprise Linux? There is no reason in heaven or
hell
to
trust them.
As far as I'm concerned, they're the good guys now.
:o)
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I am not so sure that Oracle will do the same as RedHat ... as it has
done
with other Communities that it has bought, I would honestly prefer something 100% community and that it gives us the necessary business
tools
to move to production 100% compatible systems, I think RockyLinux and
what
CLoudLinux intends to do is good and gives a wide range of possibilities
to
choose from.
Victor
Totally agree.
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