Red Hat derivatives: Alma, Oracle and Rocky
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Red Hat derivatives: Alma, Oracle and Rocky
A heads-up for anyone using a RHEL derivative as a host machine: IBM have announced that they are closing their RHEL sources unless you have a support contract. How this will affect AlmaLinux, OracleLinux and RockyLinux is not yet clear. It appears that AmazonLinux is derived from Fedora and so shouldn't be affected.
Martin
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Re: Red Hat derivatives: Alma, Oracle and Rocky
I don't think it's gonna be a big problem, you can download the "real" RedHat, and use 16 instances for free (commercially and privately):
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/ ... rise-linux#
Alternatively one can change to openSUSE Leap that is based on SLES:
https://www.suse.com/c/closing-the-leap-gap-src/
A little reminder for those who are willing to check SUSE, btrfs is just and REALLY just for the Operating-system, for data (even /home) XFS is recommended (like RH), for gamers make a ext4 partition -> inode64-problem
However, if you want real-world stability (AKA the new CEO/Owner kills my distro) use a established "pure" community distro, like Debian, Arch, Gentoo or one of the BSD's.
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/ ... rise-linux#
Alternatively one can change to openSUSE Leap that is based on SLES:
https://www.suse.com/c/closing-the-leap-gap-src/
A little reminder for those who are willing to check SUSE, btrfs is just and REALLY just for the Operating-system, for data (even /home) XFS is recommended (like RH), for gamers make a ext4 partition -> inode64-problem
However, if you want real-world stability (AKA the new CEO/Owner kills my distro) use a established "pure" community distro, like Debian, Arch, Gentoo or one of the BSD's.
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Re: Red Hat derivatives: Alma, Oracle and Rocky
Only time will tell, but if it means having to change host OS on my server and laptops it will be a bit of a nuisance. Time I could spend better doing some useful work or exploring VMS.
As a retired user though, I can be flexible. How this will play out with commercial systems where their host system is Alma/Rocky I don't know. I'm just glad I won't have to reconfigure the cluster with diskless compute nodes that I used to run to some other distro, and even more glad I won't have to explain the same to management and users!
As a retired user though, I can be flexible. How this will play out with commercial systems where their host system is Alma/Rocky I don't know. I'm just glad I won't have to reconfigure the cluster with diskless compute nodes that I used to run to some other distro, and even more glad I won't have to explain the same to management and users!
Martin
- Retired System Manager: VMS/UNIX/UNICOS/Linux.
- Started on a VAX 11/782 in 1984 with VMS 3.6.
Re: Red Hat derivatives: Alma, Oracle and Rocky
True, but RHEL has a script so you can convert your Alma/Rocky and Oracle (without the unbreakable Kernel) to RHEL (Convert2RHEL), without reinstall the system.Only time will tell,
Even more so when telling management that CentOS Stream is now the Way and RedHat...eh IBM change their minds again in 3 years.I'm just glad I won't have to reconfigure the cluster with diskless compute nodes that I used to run to some other distro, and even more glad I won't have to explain the same to management and users!
Pretty happy i chose Debian and FreeBSD, well and OracleLinux for OraDB's (but at least that's not my problem but Oracles support contract)
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