So no more CentOS LTS releases? The article's author is right: this is definitely going to move people to Ubuntu Server LTS because RHEL isn't exactly cheap.
...as in Oracle, who would like nothing more than to become "free RHEL" in their place, complete with the ability to add support later. This is a very bad move.
I haven't had a whole lot of dealing with Oracle. Is Oracle the bad part of the move (I know they are a big player, are they as evil as or perhaps more evil than RedHat?)? Or just a bad move for RedHat, dropping something that still has a following, and then potentially facing competition?
I'm just surprised to hear as relatable a name as CentOS loosing support.
You would think having people living within your ecosystem would be a good thing, paying or not. Because if they are in your ecosystem, they aren'
Oracle offers a script that automagically changes your CentOS installation to Oracle Linux quite easily. It's practically the same as CentOS except for the kernel.
Well it's Oracle, so it's certainly not going to be free. I once asked Wim Coekaerts who actually paid for Oracle Linux. He said "Oracle customers." And that's probably about right. You wanna get all your support from one phone number? Go for it. I mean, already who do you call when you want to tune your OS for an Oracle database -- Red Hat or Oracle? So you might as well just install their OS image, too, and Oracle actually does a decent job of shipping patches, too.
Unless they make it not-so-free all of a sudden, looks like an easy swap to me. Though with that said... v8 seems like a terrible release compared to the legendary v6
So no more CentOS Long-Term Support (Score:5, Interesting)
So no more CentOS LTS releases? The article's author is right: this is definitely going to move people to Ubuntu Server LTS because RHEL isn't exactly cheap.
Or... make us weak for the "Big O" (Score:2)
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I haven't had a whole lot of dealing with Oracle. Is Oracle the bad part of the move (I know they are a big player, are they as evil as or perhaps more evil than RedHat?)? Or just a bad move for RedHat, dropping something that still has a following, and then potentially facing competition?
I'm just surprised to hear as relatable a name as CentOS loosing support.
You would think having people living within your ecosystem would be a good thing, paying or not. Because if they are in your ecosystem, they aren'
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> For the regular guy,;I imagine (perhaps naively) that some entity will end up picking up the slack
--I KNEW it was a bad idea for Scientific Linux to stop their fork awhile back...
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Oracle offers a script that automagically changes your CentOS installation to Oracle Linux quite easily. It's practically the same as CentOS except for the kernel.
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It's practically the same as CentOS except for the kernel.
And Oracle isn't messing around with the kernel they ship, either. They know who their customers are and they don't ship sketchy kernels.
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Well it's Oracle, so it's certainly not going to be free. I once asked Wim Coekaerts who actually paid for Oracle Linux. He said "Oracle customers." And that's probably about right. You wanna get all your support from one phone number? Go for it. I mean, already who do you call when you want to tune your OS for an Oracle database -- Red Hat or Oracle? So you might as well just install their OS image, too, and Oracle actually does a decent job of shipping patches, too.
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Unless they make it not-so-free all of a sudden, looks like an easy swap to me. Though with that said... v8 seems like a terrible release compared to the legendary v6
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> I mean, already who do you call when you want to tune your OS for an Oracle database
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