On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 02:23:36PM +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > About Oracle as alternative. Oracle Linux is not an alternative to > > CentOS but for RHEL and if I will force to pay for enteprise system > > currently I will pay RHEL, not OL. Over this, OL is not the only > > enterprise distro that a "user" could choose. If support is needed there > > are SUSE (SLES) and Ubuntu. For who that don't need support there are > > Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE (I'm talking about the most used but you know > > that slackware,FreeBSD are in that list), so many alternatives are in place. > > I think it's particularly disappointing *if* this is a "policy" from RH > since the other major RHEL clone, Scientific Linux, has not produced an > EL8 offering in favour of using CentOS.
Keep in mind that as soon as Scientific Linux started taking off, IIRC, because CentOS was late with a release, RH quickly hired its main developer. I don't think we can really expect RH to act differently than most corporations. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos