[CentOS] Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux

Fri Dec 11 16:37:11 UTC 2020
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 11.12.20 um 17:30 schrieb Victor Pereira:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 1:15 PM Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:07 AM Richard B. Pyne <rpyne at 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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>>
>> *Matt Phelps*
>>
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>>
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>>
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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.


Some one mentioned the already available Springdale Linux OS
made by Princeton University and IAS:

https://puias.math.ias.edu/

--
Leon