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Sure enough, the community started https://rockylinux.org/ https://rockylinux.org/ as quick as redhat killed it!
by kim0 6y ago
Sure enough, the community started https://rockylinux.org/ https://rockylinux.org/ as quick as redhat killed it!
- qz2 6y agoNext step they’ll stop publishing the RPM spec files or change the license on them. Edit: why the downvotes.
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- bonzini 6y agoThey (we, I work at Red Hat) would have no engineering department the second after.
- qz2 6y agoYes but to be clear the folk that may make that decision may not be aware of that. I’ve been in that situation before myself.
- bonzini 6y agoThey do (I know them, and I have talked to them since Wednesday). That's not to say this was not a screwup, but I would say that rumors around the death of free RHEL rebuilds have been greatly exaggerated.
- justapassenger 6y agoPeople can be replaced. Especially at big corporation.
- znpy 6y agoNot really, not at that level. Take BTRFS: it was a technology preview in an earlier release of RHEL but it was later retracted. AFAIK they don't have enough internal people working on BTRFS, most of their filesystem people are XFS people. And since shipping btrfs would have meant supporting it for the next ~5-10 years (along with bugfix backports)... they decided to pull the plug.
- justapassenger 6y agoRedhat is still managed as geeky project, where you have tech wars. Sadly, I think that in few years IBM will make sure that only wars will be internal turf wars between different departments. Decision to drop something like btrfs will be based on which VP has better political game skills, and people working on it won’t have much saying in it. I’d love to be wrong tho, as redhat is one of the most important Linux project in the history, and it’ll be sad if it ends like that.
- znpy 6y ago> Redhat is still managed as geeky project, where you have tech wars. are you red hat employee to be able to tell that or is it just a speculation ?
- themodelplumber 6y ago> Rocky Linux is led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project That seems about as auspicious as one could reasonably expect. Awesome news.
- aritmo 6y agoAnd CloudLinux is doing the same, https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-community-driven-rhel-fork-by-cloudlinux https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-communit... edit: RockyLinux and CloudLinux are joining forces, https://www.reddit.com/r/RockyLinux/comments/kanvwb/cloudlinux_is_also_going_to_make_their_own_rhel/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RockyLinux/comments/kanvwb/cloudlin...
- chasil 6y agoIt is a tribute to name the scion of CentOS after one of the (deceased) founders, Rocky McGaugh. If I might suggest a subtle variation on the name and branding, it would be this: RockOS: It Rocks. A hard look at Springdale Linux is due, similar to the White Box Linux assimilation into CentOS. Oracle also needs to get the converter script updated for CentOS 8, preferably in a manner that switches update streams fluidly. https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/ https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/ The ship is sinking, get in the life boats.
- teddyh 6y agoThat’s “Deceased”.
- chasil 6y agoThanks, fixed.
- cbm-vic-20 6y agoFrom that page: """ Q: Wait, doesn't Oracle Linux cost money? A: Oracle Linux support costs money. If you just want the software, it's 100% free. [...] Yes, we know that this is Oracle, but it's actually free. Seriously. [...] Q: Why are you doing this? A: This is not some gimmick to get you running Oracle Linux so that you buy support from us. [...] """