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

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:30 AM Victor Pereira <victor.pereira at unix.cl>
wrote:

> 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*
> >
> > *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator*
> >
> > (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
> >
> > Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
> >
> >
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> > email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu
> >
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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.
> --
> Victor
>

Totally agree.

-- 

*Matt Phelps*

*Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator*

(Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian


60 Garden Street | MS 39 | Cambridge, MA 02138
email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu


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