On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 02:23:36PM +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
About Oracle as alternative. Oracle Linux is not an alternative to CentOS but for RHEL and if I will force to pay for enteprise system currently I will pay RHEL, not OL. Over this, OL is not the only enterprise distro that a "user" could choose. If support is needed there are SUSE (SLES) and Ubuntu. For who that don't need support there are Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE (I'm talking about the most used but you know that slackware,FreeBSD are in that list), so many alternatives are in place.
I think it's particularly disappointing *if* this is a "policy" from RH since the other major RHEL clone, Scientific Linux, has not produced an EL8 offering in favour of using CentOS.
Keep in mind that as soon as Scientific Linux started taking off, IIRC, because CentOS was late with a release, RH quickly hired its main developer. I don't think we can really expect RH to act differently than most corporations.