On 08.07.21 14:38, 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, Rocky
Linux stands as a rock-solid solution. This opinion does not reject
other CentOS clones, but emphasizes the fact that Rocky Linux appears
to 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.
Maybe "we" could fill this gap? Describe this state of EPEL? Did you
requested such missing packages? From the early on (EL8.0) I requested
such EPEL packages, some fedora maintainers branched there packages into
EPEL8. Even a request for a devel package was honored and the rpm was
included by RH later in 8.1. This is a community, so communicate!
Everything else is a product in ready state that must be paid.
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.
--
Leon
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