On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 at 10:04, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 at 09:18, Nikolaos Milas <nmilas at noa.gr> wrote: > >> > >> Another option is to migrate to an RHEL 8 -compatible OS, like Rocky > >> Linux, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Springdale Linux. > >> > >> (I remind that CentOS Stream is no more a RHEL 8 twin.) > >> > >> I have already migrated successfully all my CentOS 8 boxes to Rocky. (I > >> am informed that in Academic Institutions in Greece -at least-, SysAdmin > >> teams have also selected Rocky to migrate from CentOS 8.) > >> > >> Rocky seems to be gaining momentum as the main CentOS 8 successor. > >> > > > > Going off of EPEL8 client use meters, it is still a fair tie between > > Rocky usage and Alma usage. > > > > Date | OS Name | Number of systems longer than 2 weeks old (so > > probably not CI/Containers) > > 2021-11-01 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 119625 > > 2021-11-01 | CentOS Linux | 461424 > > 2021-11-01 | CentOS Stream | 56902 > > 2021-11-01 | Oracle Linux | 20683 > > 2021-11-01 | AlmaLinux | 25880 > > 2021-11-01 | Rocky | 28167 > > These figures are interesting but they can not be compared directly. > Oracle has its own EPEL repo and therefore I guess that the number here > shows only those who are using the official EPEL instead of the one > provided by Oracle. That said, I expect that the true number of Oracle > Linux installations is quite a bit higher than what we see here. > Correct and my deepest apologies for not saying so. I usually list the Oracle caveat and I forgot to do so. The Oracle numbers are a lower bound at best as it requires someone to install and/or convert to Oracle and then use an upstream epel-release. Most Oracle users will be using their rebuild of EPEL. > Even more interesting and worrying is the still growing number of CentOS > Linux 8 installations ;) > > Regards, > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Stephen J Smoogen. Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren