On 7/7/21 12:08 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > On 07.07.21 18:04, Jon Pruente wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 7:41 AM Leon Fauster via CentOS >> <centos at centos.org <mailto:centos at centos.org>> wrote: >> >> Here is another one: >> >> https://navylinux.org/ <https://navylinux.org/> >> >> >> Navy Linux has a bad taste already, for me. They are aiming too big, >> even trying to replicate EPEL for themselves. And their attitude isn't >> good. They had a tweet disparaging "new unstable vendors" of EL >> distros that they only deleted after being called out for it, despite >> being one of those themselves. >> >> Deleted tweet link: >> https://twitter.com/NavyLinux/status/1408429562472677381 >> <https://twitter.com/NavyLinux/status/1408429562472677381> >> >> They used to say they were founded by "Unixlab". Which Unixlab? We >> don't know. Now they say they are a non-profit Foundation that founded >> the project. >> https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kZLBFcdLyrYJ:https://navylinux.org/about/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us >> <https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kZLBFcdLyrYJ:https://navylinux.org/about/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us> >> >> > > +1 > > The Division of Corporations in DELAWARE shows: > Formation Date: 6/14/2021 (mm/dd/yyyy) > > Anyway, in the context of ongoing attacks to the supply chain. > This situation where CentOS is running EOL will motivate new > black hats to step into the place. Imagine a massive deployed > OS that is trojanized?! > > So trust is here king and despite all adversity (that also hits me > hard) we should thinks twice before running away into foreign arms. > +1 And I feel safe running (and planning to run for long future to come) quite reputable ones with long history of such: FreeBSD (servers), Debian (number crunchers, workstations). Valeri > -- > Leon > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++