[CentOS] Tomcat or what on CentOS 8?

Wed Apr 29 13:16:45 UTC 2020
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> --On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 9:35 PM +0200 Simon Matter via CentOS
> <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
>> If I don't find usable RPMs for CentOS 8 I'm going to build our own as I
>> do for other things as well. But I just can't believe they don't already
>> exist.
>
> Some upstream providers have taken to providing their own repositories.
> I'm
> now getting Nginx, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL from the source that way.
> Perhaps Tomcat has its own upstream repo.

But then why would you want to use CentOS for it or even pay for RHEL if
you can have all this packaged nicely in FreeBSD? Plus, as a long term
Unix and Linux user I feel much more at home on FreeBSD these days than I
feel on CentOS 7 or 8. Even Fedora provides Tomcat 9 which I'm calling an
enterprise feature. How can an enterprise distribution lack such an
important and widely used feature?

Regards,
Simon