Am 08.12.20 um 18:54 schrieb Frank Cox: > Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos? I'm asking because genuinely don't know; I've never paid any attention to Oracle's Linux offering before now. > > But today I've seen a couple of the folks here mention Oracle Linux and I see that Oracle even offers a script to convert Centos 7 to Oracle. Nothing about Centos 8 in that script, though. > > https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/ > > That page seems to say that Oracle Linux is everything that Centos was prior to today's announcement. > > But someone else here just said that the first thing Oracle Linux does is to sign you up for an Oracle account. > > So, for people who know a lot more about these things than I do, what's the downside of using Oracle Linux versus Centos? I assume that things like epel/rpmfusion/etc will work just as they do under Centos since it's supposed to be bit-for-bit compatible like Centos was. What does the "sign up with Oracle" stuff actually do, and can you cancel, avoid, or strip it out if you don't want it? > > Based on my extremely limited knowledge around Oracle Linux, it sounds like that might be a go-to solution for Centos refugees. > > But is it, really? > Yes, it is better than Centos and in some aspects better than RHEL: - faster security updates than Centos, directly behind RHEl - better kernels than RHEL and CentOS (UEKs) wih more features - free to download (no subscription needed): https://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-isos.html - free to use: https://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-8.html - massive amount of extra packes and full rebuild of EPEL (same link): https://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-8.html