I will probably be more like to go for Springdale Linux since they've
been around since before CentOS, I find it hard to put trust in a
project that's just getting started unless of course CERN changes their
decision about discontinuing Scientific Linux since they were migrating
to CentOS.
On 12/10/20 5:17 AM, ~Stack~ wrote:
On 12/9/20 9:16 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
One thing does concern me: having left CentOS (it was all
"volunteer" effort at that epoch as I recall) for SL, a primary
motivator was that SL had professional (employed, not volunteer)
persons doing the distros, and this SL list amounting to support.
If Rocky is to be all volunteer, how reliable and professional will
it be? This is not a minor issue, as very few enthusiasts or other
non-professionals provide a truly reliable deliverable.
I would say, give it time. It wouldn't be the first time Kurtzer
started an open source project and turned into a company. :-)
For my use, is EL going to continue to be workstation friendly (e.g.,
laptop in which one cannot pick and choose to integrate only Linux
traditionally supported controllers with appropriate drivers, such as
sound "cards", but is stuck with whatever the laptop vendor has used
-- typically MS Win "supported") or is it primarily a server distro?
Ubuntu LTS still seems to be laptop friendly.
They are aiming for complete RHEL reproducibility. If the goal is to
be as-true-as-possible-RHEL variant then the answer would be in how
you use RHEL.
But do give it sometime. It's only been two days and the announcement
I just saw said that there are now 750 people actively participating
in the various forms to communication and they have direction, a plan,
and leaders making it happen. And there's thousands of people who have
noticed and are talking about it on /. , reddit, lwn, ect. That's
pretty impressive and it speaks volumes about the number of people who
really do want a true-to-RHEL variant.
~Stack~
