On 1/22/21 9:10 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 08:32, Gionatan Danti <g.danti at assyoma.it> wrote: > >> Il 2021-01-22 13:43 Nikolaos Milas ha scritto: >>> I think we can expect Rocky Linux to provide a real solution to CentOS >>> future. We shall know very soon, so let's just wait for a short while. >> >> Hi, there are any specific reasons to not use Spingdale Linux? >> As far I know, it already ships a RHEL 8.3 clone. >> >> > My guess is that no one wants to go to a new OS alone. They want to go with > all their mailing list buddies but they also want to make a STATEMENT to > stick it in the eye of Red Hat for doing this. Going to a staid and quiet > existing OS doesn't make that statement. Going to a competing company like > Oracle does have the stick in the eye, but it already has its own community > and ways of doing things in an Oracle way. A lot of grumpy old sysadmins > are a drop in the bucket. Now Rocky has no history, no existing community > and a bunch of old sysadmins could jump in and be just like they were > elsewhere. So try and get everyone you know to go there.. [it also doesn't > exist so if it doesn't work out you won't have moved your systems to it and > then found you had to move it something else.] > Well, y'know, right now is sorta like after RH 9, when suddenly there was this RHEL, and IIRC, you could get it for free for home/small use, then suddenly it was "nope, gotta pay". Been here before, not happy. mark