Soon, we will all have to find a way to work with other distributions, or work together to create and maintain new distributions that focus on micro/small/medium business. Eventually, this will be the only way to keep virtualization and hybrid cloud available. Everyone smells money and RedHat is now controlled by IBM, so little by little, we can start seeing the changes, reducing packages, dismantling, re-architecting, re-branding. It's only a matter of time. Greed is worse than cancer. On Thu, 2021-07-08 at 14:38 +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 2021-07-08 13:22 Nikolaos Milas ha scritto: > If some people want to leave the RHEL ecosystem for Debian or > FreeBSD,that's OK. But for those who want to stay in the RHEL world, > RockyLinux stands as a rock-solid solution. This opinion does not > rejectother CentOS clones, but emphasizes the fact that Rocky Linux > appearsto be a solid option for now and the years to come. > While true, I also feel that RH is trying to actively shape its > distribution away from small enterprise needs. For example, common > packages are deprecated and/or removed (eg: virt-manager, screen, > kernel-side DRBD, pam_mysql, etc) and EPEL 8 (which is fundamental to > my CentOS/Rocky installations) is in a bad state. > My impression is that RH is following cloud vendors & hyperscale > needs - with Stream as a clear example. This is not an inherently bad > thing, but it quite different from what the small and medium > businesses I service need. > So, while closely watching RH/CentOS/Rocky, I am going to steer new > deployments on Ubuntu LTS or Debian.Regards. >