On 12/9/20 9:16 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
One thing does concern me: having left CentOS (it was all "volunteer"
effort at that epoch as I recall) for SL, a primary motivator was that
SL had professional (employed, not volunteer) persons doing the distros,
and this SL list amounting to support.
If Rocky is to be all volunteer, how reliable and professional will it
be? This is not a minor issue, as very few enthusiasts or other
non-professionals provide a truly reliable deliverable.
I would say, give it time. It wouldn't be the first time Kurtzer started
an open source project and turned into a company. :-)
For my use, is EL going to continue to be workstation friendly (e.g.,
laptop in which one cannot pick and choose to integrate only Linux
traditionally supported controllers with appropriate drivers, such as
sound "cards", but is stuck with whatever the laptop vendor has used --
typically MS Win "supported") or is it primarily a server distro? Ubuntu
LTS still seems to be laptop friendly.
They are aiming for complete RHEL reproducibility. If the goal is to be
as-true-as-possible-RHEL variant then the answer would be in how you use
RHEL.
But do give it sometime. It's only been two days and the announcement I
just saw said that there are now 750 people actively participating in
the various forms to communication and they have direction, a plan, and
leaders making it happen. And there's thousands of people who have
noticed and are talking about it on /. , reddit, lwn, ect. That's pretty
impressive and it speaks volumes about the number of people who really
do want a true-to-RHEL variant.
~Stack~