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) >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> *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 >> >> >> cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook <http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook> | Twitter >> <http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter> | YouTube <http://cfa.harvard.edu/youtube >>> >> | Newsletter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/newsletter> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > 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