Re: [Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

2012-07-23 Thread Mark Woodward
On 07/23/2012 01:07 PM, Guy Gold wrote: They don't really leave much room for questions :) http://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/ (I am , in no way, affiliated with Oracle) I *always* disregard claims when no effort is attempted at substantiating them. ___

Re: [Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

2012-07-23 Thread Guy Gold
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Guy Gold wrote: > They don't really leave much room for questions :) Come to think of it, the subject of the message should have been : Oracle Linux, going after Red-Hat... -- Guy Gold ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

2012-07-23 Thread Guy Gold
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > Capitalist competition in action. Indeed, I rubbed my eyes the first time I saw the add. My reply was to the manager that sent it " Soon enough MS will open their code and offer free download" . One (or a company), can own an Enterprise class L

Re: [Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

2012-07-23 Thread Tom Metro
Guy Gold wrote: > http://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/ More accurately they are separating the distribution of their Linux distribution - including updates and binaries - from their support services. Its only like CentOs in that it goes after the same demographic - people who want a RedHat comp

Re: [Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

2012-07-23 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/23/2012 1:07 PM, Guy Gold wrote: They don't really leave much room for questions :) Just two. For now. 1. Do you want to give Oracle the market share? :) 2. How badly does it break Scientific Linux? CentOS and Oracle Linux aim for binary compatibility with RHEL. SL does not, and mixi

Re: [Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

2012-07-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Guy Gold > > They don't really leave much room for questions :) > > http://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/ That is interesting, but ... The only supposed value they have over cent

[Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

2012-07-23 Thread Guy Gold
They don't really leave much room for questions :) http://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/ (I am , in no way, affiliated with Oracle) -- Guy Gold ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Interesting work in the industry?

2012-07-23 Thread Kyle Leslie
Interesting is pretty subjective. For instance, Security is EXTREMELY interesting to me. What would you consider interesting? On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Mark Woodward wrote: > While I am currently employed at a pretty good company, I am constantly > getting recruitment emails. And they a