>Oracle Linux... set aside your automatic (and justified) repulsion I can't for two reasons: 1) The only way I avoid the repulsive side of Oracle in this is i

>Oracle Linux... set aside your automatic (and justified) repulsion I can't for two reasons: 1) The only way I avoid the repulsive side of Oracle in this is if I don't care about having a reliable guaranteed enterprise support contract. No one is going to have more expertise in how this distro is built & functions than Oracle, and that's the no-go zone. 2) It's not just about the current status of the project but also the future and what happens if this author is successful and lots of people switch over to Oracle Linux. Nothing stops them from switching things up at short notice (unless I pay them for a service guarantee!) and pulling the rug out from underneath the whole thing. And the more that people adopt it as their distro of choice, the more likely Oracle is to look around for some way to monetize it at gun-point (well, crippling legal bills at least)