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Yeah, I myself used CentOS when I needed a 100% binary-compatible version of RHEL for free, without all the horse shit that RHEL forces you into (RHN, etc). Oh
by pak9rabid 6y ago
Yeah, I myself used CentOS when I needed a 100% binary-compatible version of RHEL for free, without all the horse shit that RHEL forces you into (RHN, etc).
Oh well, I guess there's Oracle Unbreakable Linux to fill this gap until something better comes along.
- pak9rabid 6y agoAnother possibility for those that are being affected by this: in the past when I had no choice but to use RHEL but didn't have an active RHN subscription, I just removed the RHN yum repos and replaced them with CentOS equivalents and everything worked out just fine. In the event the CentOS repos get pulled, then I imagine one could do the same thing, but with Oracle's repos instead.
- op00to 6y agoAnd when your company gets audited by Oracle and they find the repos, you’ll have a nice conversation about how you need to buy a bunch of oracle cloud bullshit or else you owe a bunch for support.
- dralley 6y agoRHN is dead as a doornail, for the record. Replaced by RH Subscription Manager
- nobody9999 6y ago“Old RHN was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that RHN was as dead as a doornail.” With apologies to Charles Dickens[0]. [0] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm