On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 at 09:18, Nikolaos Milas nmilas@noa.gr wrote:
Another option is to migrate to an RHEL 8 -compatible OS, like Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Springdale Linux.
(I remind that CentOS Stream is no more a RHEL 8 twin.)
I have already migrated successfully all my CentOS 8 boxes to Rocky. (I am informed that in Academic Institutions in Greece -at least-, SysAdmin teams have also selected Rocky to migrate from CentOS 8.)
Rocky seems to be gaining momentum as the main CentOS 8 successor.
Going off of EPEL8 client use meters, it is still a fair tie between Rocky usage and Alma usage.
Date | OS Name | Number of systems longer than 2 weeks old (so probably not CI/Containers) 2021-11-01 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 119625 2021-11-01 | CentOS Linux | 461424 2021-11-01 | CentOS Stream | 56902 2021-11-01 | Oracle Linux | 20683 2021-11-01 | AlmaLinux | 25880 2021-11-01 | Rocky | 28167
These figures are interesting but they can not be compared directly. Oracle has its own EPEL repo and therefore I guess that the number here shows only those who are using the official EPEL instead of the one provided by Oracle. That said, I expect that the true number of Oracle Linux installations is quite a bit higher than what we see here.
Even more interesting and worrying is the still growing number of CentOS Linux 8 installations ;)
Regards, Simon