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

On the other hand, I believe and seeing the glass half full, that this is
good to stir the waters a bit since it has been a long time since we saw
new Forks of Operating Systems that could be so important and that make the
communities work together again in something common without going through a
company.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 1:37 PM Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> 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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> > 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
>
>
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> email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu
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Victor