On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 1:15 PM Phelps, Matthew <mphelps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:07 AM Richard B. Pyne <rpyne@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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)
> > >
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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.
--
Victor
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