Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-16 Thread Valeri Galtsev
> On Dec 16, 2020, at 6:42 PM, Nate Duehr wrote: > > > > -- Original Message -- > From: "Matti Pulkkinen" > >> As someone who is considering moving to OL, I wonder if you could elaborate >> clearly on what specific concerns you have, without the insinuation and >> analogy?

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-16 Thread Nate Duehr
-- Original Message -- From: "Matti Pulkkinen" As someone who is considering moving to OL, I wonder if you could elaborate clearly on what specific concerns you have, without the insinuation and analogy? Oracle's proposition [1] seems pretty straightforward to me. That they''

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-16 Thread Peter Eckel
Hi Johnny, > $250K is not even close. That is one employee, when you also take into > account unemployment insurance, HR, medical insurance etc. now multiply > that by 8. Now, outfit those 8 employees to work from home .. all over > the world, different countries, different laws. > > .. THEN

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-16 Thread Nate Duehr
-- Original Message -- From: "Rainer Duffner" So, you will quickly be back to square one, unless you want to run stuff like Debian or Ubuntu, which are mainly Linux-kernel+some stuff nowadays, whereas RHEL + CentOS forms a complete system (with additional software that RedHat has

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/16/20 12:28 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 12/16/20 10:50 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> Why did they change the development process of RHEL .. Because they >> want to do the development in the community. The current process of >> RHEL development is closed .. they want it to be open. It is that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS advisories for 8 release

2020-12-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/16/20 3:28 PM, Olivier Bonhomme wrote: >> Hi Olivier, >> >> this question got several answers. Since C8 was release updates on >> announces ML are not available because the tool that provides >> notification does not work with the new tool that is used to build >> packages. >> >> Actually I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS advisories for 8 release

2020-12-16 Thread Olivier Bonhomme
Hi Olivier, this question got several answers. Since C8 was release updates on announces ML are not available because the tool that provides notification does not work with the new tool that is used to build packages. Actually I use RHEL advisory, but this require a RH account (not

Re: [CentOS] Software raid Oddity

2020-12-16 Thread Christopher Wensink
I had an issue similar to this years ago where I helped out a former employer on a Dell Poweredge System with a RAID 5 array (Windows). The system Refused to Boot, but there were lights on the front of the backplane were the drives slid in, indicating drive fault (amber) or drive ok (green). 

Re: [CentOS] Software raid Oddity

2020-12-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:57:13 -0700 Paul R. Ganci via CentOS wrote: > My gut suggests that the raid array was never degraded and that my > system (i.e. cat /proc/mdstat) was lying to me. Any Opinions? I wonder if it's a ram failure in either the main computer or the drive controller. An

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-16 Thread Jon Pruente
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 12:11 PM Lamar Owen wrote: > > For example, I was messing with kubernetes in a few ways. redhat > > provides a license for RHEL, that you can use for that purpose for > > free, BUT you can have only have one license. > Yes, which makes it a bit difficult to mess around

[CentOS] Software raid Oddity

2020-12-16 Thread Paul R. Ganci via CentOS
I have a CentOS 7.9 system with a software raid 6 root partition. Today something very strange occurred. At 6:45AM the system crashed. I rebooted and when the system came up I had multiple emails indicating that 3 out of 6 drives had failed on the root partition. Strangely I was able to boot

Re: [CentOS] What about the AltArch repositories? (+ some experiments with aarch64 on Raspberry Pi)

2020-12-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 09:50:43AM +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > I guess that all these "side projects" (and SIGs, etc.) will disappear as > well, won't they? The FAQ on this isn't super-helpful, unfortunately (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-centos-stream-updates#Q7) That said, I don't see

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-16 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 12/16/2020 12:09 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/14/20 10:54 AM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: The article states that CentOS will now be "upstream" of RHEL instead of "downstream". This is strange to me. I never thought CentOS was upstream or downstream of RHEL; I always thought it *was* RHEL --

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/14/20 10:54 AM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: The article states that CentOS will now be "upstream" of RHEL instead of "downstream". This is strange to me. I never thought CentOS was upstream or downstream of RHEL; I always thought it *was* RHEL -- perhaps a little delayed, but that's not

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-16 Thread Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL (6393) Washington DC (USA) via CentOS
On Dec 16, 2020, at 11:54 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Even out side the maintenance phase .. there will be some bugs that will > get incorporated into the next point release. Those should be in Stream > first. > > There will never be another 'downstream rhel source code build' done by > Red Hat.

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-16 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 12/16/20 7:13 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 12/16/20 12:55 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> Off-topic: >> >> On 12/16/20 4:11 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: >>> 2.) The enthusiasts who were building their own machines from parts. >>> That group is small, but they also tend to be very vocal; IT >>>

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-16 Thread R C
On 12/16/20 11:24 AM, John Plemons wrote: I have a DEC Alpha sitting in my warehouse collecting dust what a great machine it was.. Was sorry to see Linux Support die for it.. I used to work at a university, where one of my colleagues has (I think he still has it) a pdp11/10 You know,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/16/20 10:50 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: Why did they change the development process of RHEL .. Because they want to do the development in the community. The current process of RHEL development is closed .. they want it to be open. It is that simple. Johnny, let me say first of all thanks for

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-16 Thread John Plemons
I have a DEC Alpha sitting in my warehouse collecting dust what a great machine it was.. Was sorry to see Linux Support die for it.. john On 12/16/2020 1:18 PM, R C wrote: On 12/16/20 11:10 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/16/20 11:24 AM, R C wrote: On 12/16/20 8:11 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: But

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-16 Thread R C
On 12/16/20 11:10 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/16/20 11:24 AM, R C wrote: On 12/16/20 8:11 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: But the Red Hat-based ecosystem version of that second group is on-topic, as the same sort of enthusiast exists here and has been very vocal about this change. Well yes it is, but

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/16/20 12:55 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Off-topic: On 12/16/20 4:11 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: 2.) The enthusiasts who were building their own machines from parts. That group is small, but they also tend to be very vocal; IT professionals often fall into this group, and MS wanted to keep

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/16/20 11:24 AM, R C wrote: On 12/16/20 8:11 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: But the Red Hat-based ecosystem version of that second group is on-topic, as the same sort of enthusiast exists here and has been very vocal about this change. Well yes it is, but it started with a remark about licensing.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-16 Thread R C
On 12/16/20 10:39 AM, Frank Saporito wrote: I may be cynical, but I think this is a business decision. By gaining control of CentOS, RedHat gained control of its biggest (apparent) competitor.  This action should increase the value of RedHat.  A few years later, IBM buys RedHat for a

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-16 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Off-topic: On 12/16/20 4:11 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > 2.) The enthusiasts who were building their own machines from parts.  > That group is small, but they also tend to be very vocal; IT > professionals often fall into this group, and MS wanted to keep them > happy for all the reasons previously

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future ("Long goodbye"?)

2020-12-16 Thread Valeri Galtsev
> On Dec 16, 2020, at 11:38 AM, R C wrote: > > > On 12/16/20 9:45 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> My apologies about top posting. >> >> I join Matthew on all counts. >> >> The following might sound as a rant, but it is not, given the circumstances >> we have been put into. >> >> First, and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-16 Thread Frank Saporito
I may be cynical, but I think this is a business decision. By gaining control of CentOS, RedHat gained control of its biggest (apparent) competitor.  This action should increase the value of RedHat.  A few years later, IBM buys RedHat for a staggering 34 BILLION dollars.  I would expect that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future ("Long goodbye"?)

2020-12-16 Thread R C
On 12/16/20 9:45 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: My apologies about top posting. I join Matthew on all counts. The following might sound as a rant, but it is not, given the circumstances we have been put into. First, and most important: thank you CentOS team for all great work you have done

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future ("Long goodbye"?)

2020-12-16 Thread John Plemons
I would like to echo the thanks in this post, and to add a bit of information that I have learned doing some quick research on where to go.  Scientific Linux is basically no more, they deferred to Centos and pretty much ended their distribution. Oracle seems to be the easiest and quickest

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/16/20 10:47 AM, James Pearson wrote: > Johnny Hughes: >>> >>> As others have said, it misses the _really_ important bit about the >>> traditional CentOS model which is to follow the RHEL ~10 year life cycle >>> It doesn't matter how good/rock solid/whatever CentOS Stream turns out to >>>

Re: [CentOS] What about the AltArch repositories? (+ some experiments with aarch64 on Raspberry Pi)

2020-12-16 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> > This is aarch64: > > https://people.centos.org/pgreco/CentOS-Userland-8-stream-aarch64-RaspberryPI-Minimal-4/ > Great! I had missed this one. Thank you. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-16 Thread James Pearson
Johnny Hughes: >> >> As others have said, it misses the _really_ important bit about the >> traditional CentOS model which is to follow the RHEL ~10 year life cycle >> It doesn't matter how good/rock solid/whatever CentOS Stream turns out to >> be, but if it only has a 5 year life cycle for each

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future ("Long goodbye"?)

2020-12-16 Thread Valeri Galtsev
My apologies about top posting. I join Matthew on all counts. The following might sound as a rant, but it is not, given the circumstances we have been put into. First, and most important: thank you CentOS team for all great work you have done during all these years. As user who used results

Re: [CentOS] What about the AltArch repositories? (+ some experiments with aarch64 on Raspberry Pi)

2020-12-16 Thread Joshua Kramer
This is aarch64: https://people.centos.org/pgreco/CentOS-Userland-8-stream-aarch64-RaspberryPI-Minimal-4/ On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 10:55 AM Mathieu Baudier wrote: > > > It's also worth noting that there is a CentOS 8 SD Card image for > > Raspberry Pi 4. That's what I used. It was dirt simple

Re: [CentOS] Status of DLM in CentOS?

2020-12-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/9/20 2:16 AM, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote: I was searching for DLM for my Centos 8. But it seems there are no packages available. The "dlm" kernel module is included in the standard kernel. Locks are configured with the "pcs" package. ___

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-16 Thread R C
On 12/16/20 8:11 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/15/20 1:24 PM, R C wrote: What I meant was that MS basically, for the longest while, had their OS pre-installed on computers sold, so it "felt" free to the buyer, it came with the machine. Universities and colleges did receive bulk licenses and

Re: [CentOS] What about the AltArch repositories? (+ some experiments with aarch64 on Raspberry Pi)

2020-12-16 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> It's also worth noting that there is a CentOS 8 SD Card image for > Raspberry Pi 4. That's what I used. It was dirt simple to "install"- > simply dd the image file to an actual SD card, put it in the RasPi, > and go! (Allthough in my case, I made some modifications to the > Do you mean an

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/15/20 9:59 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 7:41 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> $250K is not even close. That is one employee, when you also take into >> account unemployment insurance, HR, medical insurance etc. now multiply >> that by 8. Now, outfit those 8 employees

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/15/20 1:24 PM, R C wrote: What I meant was that MS basically, for the longest while, had their OS pre-installed on computers sold, so it "felt" free to the buyer, it came with the machine. Universities and colleges did receive bulk licenses and .NET pretty much for free in their

Re: [CentOS] What about the AltArch repositories? (+ some experiments with aarch64 on Raspberry Pi)

2020-12-16 Thread Joshua Kramer
It's also worth noting that there is a CentOS 8 SD Card image for Raspberry Pi 4. That's what I used. It was dirt simple to "install"- simply dd the image file to an actual SD card, put it in the RasPi, and go! (Allthough in my case, I made some modifications to the filesystems before actually

Re: [CentOS] What about the AltArch repositories? (+ some experiments with aarch64 on Raspberry Pi)

2020-12-16 Thread Joshua Kramer
I asked about this before. As far as CentOS itself is concerned this is an unknown. For me it's kind of annoying because I just set up a couple of Raspi 4's with CentOS 8 for a home automation system right before this announcement was made. Having said that- there is a little known distro

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-16 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 15.12.20 um 19:35 schrieb Matthew Miller: On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:21:17PM +, Phil Perry wrote: thanks to bring this up - this is a big issue. How could we communicate this? Bugzilla? Anyone listing here? Here you go: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1908047 At the

Re: [CentOS] On-demand audio streaming software

2020-12-16 Thread Thomas Bendler
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 12:16 PM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > [...] > I wonder if there's some software that can stream on-demand audio like > music > playlists or podcasts. What I'd like to do is host a series of playlists > (like > "Radio Show of the week") or podcasts, and then someone who wants

[CentOS] DLM in CentOS?

2020-12-16 Thread Michael Schwartzkopff
Hi, about one week ago I asked about the status of the distributed lock manager DLM in CentoOS. I could could not find it in any repositories. I also got no answer on my mail to this list. So any answer to my question? Mit freundlichen Grüßen, -- [*] sys4 AG https://sys4.de, +49

[CentOS] On-demand audio streaming software

2020-12-16 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, Since 2006 I had a streaming audio server based on Icecast and MPD running on CentOS. It works like a little webradio, e.g. listeners connect to a live stream with VLC, Audacious or any other client capable of this. I wonder if there's some software that can stream on-demand audio like music

Re: [CentOS] Fix for CVE-2020-1971 on CentOS 6.10

2020-12-16 Thread Simon Matter
> Simon Matter wrote: >>Since security updates for CentOS 6 are not provided anymore, I've >> decided >>to try my best to address CVE-2020-1971 and I welcome others to do the >>same for this and other new issues which may come up. > > Thanks to Simon for doing this. > > I made my own patch which

Re: [CentOS] Fix for CVE-2020-1971 on CentOS 6.10

2020-12-16 Thread Ron Yorston
Simon Matter wrote: >Since security updates for CentOS 6 are not provided anymore, I've decided >to try my best to address CVE-2020-1971 and I welcome others to do the >same for this and other new issues which may come up. Thanks to Simon for doing this. I made my own patch which ended up the

[CentOS] What about the AltArch repositories? (+ some experiments with aarch64 on Raspberry Pi)

2020-12-16 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, given the recent change in direction of CentOS, what will become of the AltArch repositories? (like CentOS 7 aarch64 and the related kernel repositories) I have been experimenting (with some success) with running a regular CentOS 8 aarch64 (ARM 64 bits) on a Raspberry PI 4 (with 4GB RAM),