Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-26 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 1/25/21 2:05 PM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote:
> 
> 
>> Am 25.01.2021 um 17:04 schrieb Johnny Hughes :
>>
>> On 1/22/21 5:12 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>>> On 1/22/21 9:29 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote:
> Hence it is as good as dead in my mind when looking into the future, I
> am looking for future distro of choice.

 A little mentioned choice would be openSUSE, which is direction I am 
 taking.
>>>
>>> I do not like system where configuration app can overwrite manualy set
>>> config. I started with ClarkConnect in 2005-2006 and to route public
>>> subnet into my network I had to delete last iptables command then add my
>>> own, but only after config system did it's own iptables commands. I had
>>> to learn iptables before any other Linux commands and although I
>>> mastered it, it is left in unpleasant memory (it took me weeks and help
>>> from rare Linux admins to find a solution).
>>>
>>> I did try SUSE around 2000 but it was complicated to do manual changes
>>> (if it was not provided in YAST), so after ClarkConnect I had no desire
>>> to even experiment with YAST.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I have no issues with OpenSUSE .. but how is OpenSUSE any better than
>> CentOS Stream?
> 
> openSUSE is honest.
> 
> The CentOS project, RedHat, you, lied to us when you published CentOS 8
> and claiming it would be supported until 2029.  We believed you because of
> the good reputation you had built up with previous CentOS releases.
> 
> We suggested CentOS 8 to our customers.  And we have been badly f***ed 
> the a**.  Sorry for the wording that you may assume, but that is how it is.
> 
>> It is not like we are rolling rawhide packages into CentOS Stream.  They
>> are updating already created Enterprise Packages in current RHEL with
>> Bug Fixes and Security Fixes and a small number of rebases (Enhamcments
>> Fixes).  But the enhancements are not from Rawhide, they are rebases
>> very close to the current releases.
>>
>> Again .. absolutely nothing wrong with using OpenSUSE (or Ubuntu or
>> Debian, etc).  I just do not see the advantage.
> 
> I see one big advantage:  These are honest projects, while you are liars.
>


I am a lot of things (ask my ex-wife), but a liar is not one of them.  I
could care less if what you use, but name calling is juvenile. So was
the language you used.  This is a professional list.  If you can't
maintain some semblance of professionalism, please unsubscribe.


>>
>> I mean, I get it, some people are very upset with the new way CentOS is
>> being done.  And obviously people get to think what they think.  But
>> when this was announced, it was also announced that RHEL was going to be
>> opened up early in Q1 of 2021 (which has happened and is still happening).
> 
> So where is the option to install a RHEL system at a customer site, like I was
> able with CentOS?
> 
> Really, you (as in the CentOS project) totally screwed it.
> 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-26 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 1/26/21 10:36 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Le 26/01/2021 à 08:10, Ljubomir Ljubojevic a écrit :
>> But even simple thing like buying space on Google account with
>> debit/credit card is too complicated for some so I ended up paying with
>> my card to get them more "Gmail space"
> 
> *cringe*
> 
> First thing I do with new clients is replace their Gmail nonsense with a crisp
> and clean CentOS mail server:
> 
> https://blog.microlinux.fr/serveur-mail-centos-7/
> 
> :o)
> 

Yeah, but they are using that Gmail account for several years, and it is
a real-state seller/developer, and they do not want to switch to
anything other because it works.

First I managed to replace their hdd's to ssd's around new year, so it
As a bonus they got backup storage (from one PC to another).

Then I finally managed (with help of outside accountant that sent me to
them) to get them to invest 600 eur for TrueNAS because they did not
have any kind of file server, they all store on individual PC's hdd's.

Owner, simple man with money to start investments and TOTALLY no
understanding of PC's, smartphones, etc, asked why he has to spend money
on something to sit in the corner. So I explained they could loose much
electronic documents if hdd/ssd fails, and his response was "but we have
everything in/on paper...".

Then he asked administrative worker what she would do if her hdd failed,
and she said "I would kill my self", and THAT statement made him accept
to pay for file server :-)

So it is a definite progress, it will just take time to get there.

I always start with not interrupting clients workflow and adapt to their
knowledge, doing as much by my self as possible without involving them,
then slowly and incrementally introduce changes that affect them or
demand they learn something. 99% of clients use same password for all
user accounts, mainly name of the company since they are small and trust
their workers.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-26 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 26/01/2021 à 08:10, Ljubomir Ljubojevic a écrit :
> But even simple thing like buying space on Google account with
> debit/credit card is too complicated for some so I ended up paying with
> my card to get them more "Gmail space"

*cringe*

First thing I do with new clients is replace their Gmail nonsense with a crisp
and clean CentOS mail server:

https://blog.microlinux.fr/serveur-mail-centos-7/

:o)

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-25 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 1/26/21 2:25 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:05:54 +
> Phil Perry wrote:
> 
>> Let me rephrase then. If you were installing Windows on that machine for 
>> your customer, who would 'own' the licence - you or your customer?
> 
> I'd have the customer buy it, just like I have the customer buy the hardware 
> today.
> 
> My usual practice is to give the customer a shopping list.  "Here's what you 
> need.  Let me know when you have one."  I don't do hardware at all.  Any 
> parts or repaired units that I pick up from the computer store are billed to 
> the customer, not to me.
> 

I have same business model. In my part of the world anything except
Windows is barely understood by general population, and trying t explain
overloads their minds and their eyes glaze over.
Since I can not provide VAT return/rebate for anything, I prepare the
list of hardware or even invoice for what needs to be bought and they
pay for it.

But even simple thing like buying space on Google account with
debit/credit card is too complicated for some so I ended up paying with
my card to get them more "Gmail space", and was unable to organize that
they replace my card with their card for several months, it took me 5
minutes of explaining so they understand why that is important.
So idea that customer will manage RHEL licenses is in my case ludicrous.

Since I manage clients PC's/networks for 20 years and I do not advertise
but get new clients via word of mouth, all clients just decide to trust
me and give me total control beside paying for what needs to be bought
on my recommendation without getting into details.

Only thing I can do to make Dev account theirs is to create separate
e-mail on their domain that I will have access to (I am guessing they
will forget it even exists in few months) so that Red Hat does not think
I own large number of systems. That is for those clients who actually
own domain...


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:05:54 +
Phil Perry wrote:

> Let me rephrase then. If you were installing Windows on that machine for 
> your customer, who would 'own' the licence - you or your customer?

I'd have the customer buy it, just like I have the customer buy the hardware 
today.

My usual practice is to give the customer a shopping list.  "Here's what you 
need.  Let me know when you have one."  I don't do hardware at all.  Any parts 
or repaired units that I pick up from the computer store are billed to the 
customer, not to me.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-25 Thread Phil Perry

On 25/01/2021 20:47, Frank Cox wrote:

On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:17:17 +
Phil Perry wrote:


I'm assuming your customer has the relationship with Red Hat and
entitlement to 16 free copies, and you are their sub-contracted IT
professional responsible for installation and maintaining / supporting
that installation.


That's a big assumption to make.

I set up systems for businesses who want "a computer that does job x".  They don't know, 
care, or want to know what it runs on as long as the thing logs the production or makes the press 
crank on cue.  "Here's your appliance", and they throw it in a corner and maybe someone 
blows the dust off of it every couple of years when they're going by with a vacuum.

They don't want a relationship with Red Hat", and probably wouldn't even know 
what that is if I told them about it.

"Hey Frank, this thing just quit.  Make it work again."  That's all the 
involvement they want in the IT end of things.



Let me rephrase then. If you were installing Windows on that machine for 
your customer, who would 'own' the licence - you or your customer?


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:17:17 +
Phil Perry wrote:

> I'm assuming your customer has the relationship with Red Hat and 
> entitlement to 16 free copies, and you are their sub-contracted IT 
> professional responsible for installation and maintaining / supporting 
> that installation.

That's a big assumption to make.

I set up systems for businesses who want "a computer that does job x".  They 
don't know, care, or want to know what it runs on as long as the thing logs the 
production or makes the press crank on cue.  "Here's your appliance", and they 
throw it in a corner and maybe someone blows the dust off of it every couple of 
years when they're going by with a vacuum.

They don't want a relationship with Red Hat", and probably wouldn't even know 
what that is if I told them about it.

"Hey Frank, this thing just quit.  Make it work again."  That's all the 
involvement they want in the IT end of things.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-25 Thread Phil Perry

On 25/01/2021 20:05, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote:




Am 25.01.2021 um 17:04 schrieb Johnny Hughes :


I mean, I get it, some people are very upset with the new way CentOS is
being done.  And obviously people get to think what they think.  But
when this was announced, it was also announced that RHEL was going to be
opened up early in Q1 of 2021 (which has happened and is still happening).


So where is the option to install a RHEL system at a customer site, like I was
able with CentOS?



Unless I'm misunderstanding Red Hat's offer of 16 free licenses, I'm 
assuming you can install free RHEL for the customer, and that will form 
one of their (your customer's) 16 free entitlements. Unless your 
customer needs more than 16 free entitlements?


I'm assuming your customer has the relationship with Red Hat and 
entitlement to 16 free copies, and you are their sub-contracted IT 
professional responsible for installation and maintaining / supporting 
that installation.


Obviously if your customer requires in excess of 16 copies, this offer 
from Red Hat is not going to work for them, or you.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-25 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 09:05:12PM +0100, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote:
> 
> We suggested CentOS 8 to our customers.  And we have been badly f***ed 
> the a**.  Sorry for the wording that you may assume, but that is how it is.

Could you at least pretend to be professional when posting to our lists?

> Really, you (as in the CentOS project) totally screwed it.

Really, you, (as in you) totally don't get it.  *CentOS* didn't do this
thing; *Red Hat* did this thing.  Go blame them.





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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-25 Thread Marc Balmer via CentOS



> Am 25.01.2021 um 17:04 schrieb Johnny Hughes :
> 
> On 1/22/21 5:12 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>> On 1/22/21 9:29 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote:
 Hence it is as good as dead in my mind when looking into the future, I
 am looking for future distro of choice.
>>> 
>>> A little mentioned choice would be openSUSE, which is direction I am taking.
>> 
>> I do not like system where configuration app can overwrite manualy set
>> config. I started with ClarkConnect in 2005-2006 and to route public
>> subnet into my network I had to delete last iptables command then add my
>> own, but only after config system did it's own iptables commands. I had
>> to learn iptables before any other Linux commands and although I
>> mastered it, it is left in unpleasant memory (it took me weeks and help
>> from rare Linux admins to find a solution).
>> 
>> I did try SUSE around 2000 but it was complicated to do manual changes
>> (if it was not provided in YAST), so after ClarkConnect I had no desire
>> to even experiment with YAST.
>> 
>> 
> 
> I have no issues with OpenSUSE .. but how is OpenSUSE any better than
> CentOS Stream?

openSUSE is honest.

The CentOS project, RedHat, you, lied to us when you published CentOS 8
and claiming it would be supported until 2029.  We believed you because of
the good reputation you had built up with previous CentOS releases.

We suggested CentOS 8 to our customers.  And we have been badly f***ed 
the a**.  Sorry for the wording that you may assume, but that is how it is.

> It is not like we are rolling rawhide packages into CentOS Stream.  They
> are updating already created Enterprise Packages in current RHEL with
> Bug Fixes and Security Fixes and a small number of rebases (Enhamcments
> Fixes).  But the enhancements are not from Rawhide, they are rebases
> very close to the current releases.
> 
> Again .. absolutely nothing wrong with using OpenSUSE (or Ubuntu or
> Debian, etc).  I just do not see the advantage.

I see one big advantage:  These are honest projects, while you are liars.

> 
> I mean, I get it, some people are very upset with the new way CentOS is
> being done.  And obviously people get to think what they think.  But
> when this was announced, it was also announced that RHEL was going to be
> opened up early in Q1 of 2021 (which has happened and is still happening).

So where is the option to install a RHEL system at a customer site, like I was
able with CentOS?

Really, you (as in the CentOS project) totally screwed it.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-25 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 1/21/21 2:28 PM, Jamie Burchell wrote:
> The RHEL announcement is of no use to me or my company. We spin up 
> DigitalOcean droplets for each of our client websites/apps. If we were 
> utilising horizontal scaling we'd have even more droplets per website/app. 
> We'd easily have over 16 installations.
> 

Red Hat is working also with Hosting Providers to come up with plans.
If I were you, I would talk to the list at centos-questii...@redhat.com

I have no idea what the planned options are (I work on CentOS Linux 7
and 8 and CentOS Stream .. so I don't interact with that group.  This
initiative is one of their plans.
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-25 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 1/22/21 5:12 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> On 1/22/21 9:29 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote:
>>> Hence it is as good as dead in my mind when looking into the future, I
>>> am looking for future distro of choice.
>>
>> A little mentioned choice would be openSUSE, which is direction I am taking.
> 
> I do not like system where configuration app can overwrite manualy set
> config. I started with ClarkConnect in 2005-2006 and to route public
> subnet into my network I had to delete last iptables command then add my
> own, but only after config system did it's own iptables commands. I had
> to learn iptables before any other Linux commands and although I
> mastered it, it is left in unpleasant memory (it took me weeks and help
> from rare Linux admins to find a solution).
> 
> I did try SUSE around 2000 but it was complicated to do manual changes
> (if it was not provided in YAST), so after ClarkConnect I had no desire
> to even experiment with YAST.
> 
> 

I have no issues with OpenSUSE .. but how is OpenSUSE any better than
CentOS Stream?

It is not like we are rolling rawhide packages into CentOS Stream.  They
are updating already created Enterprise Packages in current RHEL with
Bug Fixes and Security Fixes and a small number of rebases (Enhamcments
Fixes).  But the enhancements are not from Rawhide, they are rebases
very close to the current releases.

Again .. absolutely nothing wrong with using OpenSUSE (or Ubuntu or
Debian, etc).  I just do not see the advantage.

I mean, I get it, some people are very upset with the new way CentOS is
being done.  And obviously people get to think what they think.  But
when this was announced, it was also announced that RHEL was going to be
opened up early in Q1 of 2021 (which has happened and is still happening).
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-25 Thread Thomas Bendler
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:15 PM Nicolas Kovacs  wrote:

> Le 21/01/2021 à 22:17, Valeri Galtsev a écrit :
> > I tried Oracle Linux. After installation it took forever to update yum
> > database, or do you yum search. Also: I didn't find mirrors... All this
> sort of
> > ruled it out for me.
>
> Works perfectly here:
>
> https://gitlab.com/kikinovak/oracle/-/blob/master/linux-setup.sh
>
> You might want to give it another spin.
> [...]


Nice script but wouldn't it be easier to do such a thing with Ansible/
Puppet/ or
the like? You can refer in most cases to the RHEL family what would make it
work
on all flavours. You only have to adjust the parts with the specific URLs
...

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-23 Thread Valeri Galtsev


> On Jan 23, 2021, at 10:05 PM, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS 
>  wrote:
> 
> On 22.01.2021 21:08, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>>> On Jan 22, 2021, at 6:43 AM, Nikolaos Milas  wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 22/1/2021 2:25 μ.μ., Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote:
>>> 
 Also, I can still expect they will again change their mind close to
 2021's end. In short, I have hard time trusting RH in such a situation.
>>> 
>> 
>> Then flee from RedHat AND clones. RedHat can do things making life of
> clones hard, different, constantly needing to invest into change. And they may
> give up.
>> 
>> But it is your decision about your future, and yours to deal with
> consequences.
>> 
>> Am I not stating the obvious?
>> 
>> Valeri
> 
> I appreciate your playing Captain Obvious, as well as your polite style 
> of trying to shut me up.
> 
> Let me play Captain Obvious as well.
> 
> The December RH announcement came while I was in a middle of upgrading a 
> number of CentOS installations. Switching to different distributions 
> might be both time consuming and tricky, especially in case of big 
> companies. We already switched many servers/VMs to alternate 
> distributions, but there are RHEL-based ones we just can't leave, and 
> PITA that RH initiated doesn't help at all.
> 
> Actually, I'll make use of that last RH offer on less-critical servers, 
> which can be, if required, quickly shut down and re-formatted under 
> different distributions.
> 
> I assist in maintaining several RHEL installations, and I brought 
> several paying customers to RH during those many years. I assume you 
> understand that I will express my concerns without asking anyone's 
> permission.

I hear you. It is always sad when something you estimated will last suddenly 
changes. In that respect I was lucky. Of dozens of things I chose during last 
couple of decades maybe one or two had suddenly changed. For the rest of my 
sysadmin's decisions I pretty much was able to stay with what I have chosen. I 
can remember decisions I didn’t make which would be devastating in a short 
future to come. One was open solaris. When it became a challenge to have long 
uptime of Linux machine, basically, after 2.4 kernel was replaced with 2.6, 
(then it was 45 days on average, kernel of glibc update == reboot), I stared to 
look for alternative system for servers. Some of my friends started to use the 
word Lindoze (referring mostly to these often reboots and analogy when you have 
to reboot Windows system after update). One of alternatives was open solaris. 
It was about that time when Oracle bought out Sun Microsystems. Another joke 
comes to my mind. We then were asking ourselves: how do we call the system 
then? Just repeat faster and faster “Sun Oracle”, and you will finally get it 
right: “snorkel”. Anyway, FreeBSD won the choice then for me, and my servers 
run FreeBSD since then (since FreeBSD version 8), - for about 10 years now I 
figure. Of course, I run server a bit more sophisticated way: given server may 
not exist, it runs in 3-4 different FreeBSD jails (a couple of services - which 
you can not separate - in each of jails). Things get so easy then, any update 
or upgrade is just a dream...

I tried to remember an example of the choice that didn’t last, apparently there 
should have been one or two like that, I just can’t remember them. So, I filled 
the place with the one that would go bad but didn’t make it into the decision, 
the good one was chosen instead.

I know I am lucky here as far as CentOS change is concerned: mine are merely 
number crunchers and workstations I had to and did find new route for (Debian 
for NVIDIA - free machines, and Ubuntu for those needing NVIDIA proprietary 
stuff).

Good luck, everybody else, to find your future, and best wishes to go the way 
that will last for you. To make sure the choice will last with every choice of 
my sysadmin’s career really required a lot of consideration, and some luck 
(which I guess I had in abundance with my choices).

Valeri

> Thanks again.
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-23 Thread Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS
On 23.01.2021 01:04, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 07:25:04AM -0500, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS
 wrote:
>> I wonder whether RH plan to fight back FUD they've brought upon by their
>> December announcement.
> 
> I mean really the only thing we can do is live up to the given plan
 with
> Stream and RHEL options, which as far as I can see is exactly what's
> happening.

Well, I did whatever look best to move on, for the assets I am 
responsible for.

>> Personally, I found this "no-cost" promise lacking substantial details.
> 
> This is just the announcement of it, of course. The full details will be
> there when the whole thing is launched, which the announcement says will
 be
> very soon.

I will subscribe to it, to keep being updated. After all, I am curious 
about the consequences.

>> If RH doesn't verify everyone requesting developer subscription (forcing
>> to prove identity), the 16 installations limit is easily circumvented by
>> multiple registrations.
> 
> There are always going to be cheaters. Don't be one of them.

Sure thing.

I also do solemnly swear that I will faithfully abide by corresponding 
licenses, copyright laws and other related legal words of power.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-23 Thread Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS
On 22.01.2021 21:08, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> On Jan 22, 2021, at 6:43 AM, Nikolaos Milas  wrote:
>>
>> On 22/1/2021 2:25 μ.μ., Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote:
>>
>>> Also, I can still expect they will again change their mind close to
>>> 2021's end. In short, I have hard time trusting RH in such a situation.
>>
> 
> Then flee from RedHat AND clones. RedHat can do things making life of
 clones hard, different, constantly needing to invest into change. And they may
 give up.
> 
> But it is your decision about your future, and yours to deal with
 consequences.
> 
> Am I not stating the obvious?
> 
> Valeri

I appreciate your playing Captain Obvious, as well as your polite style 
of trying to shut me up.

Let me play Captain Obvious as well.

The December RH announcement came while I was in a middle of upgrading a 
number of CentOS installations. Switching to different distributions 
might be both time consuming and tricky, especially in case of big 
companies. We already switched many servers/VMs to alternate 
distributions, but there are RHEL-based ones we just can't leave, and 
PITA that RH initiated doesn't help at all.

Actually, I'll make use of that last RH offer on less-critical servers, 
which can be, if required, quickly shut down and re-formatted under 
different distributions.

I assist in maintaining several RHEL installations, and I brought 
several paying customers to RH during those many years. I assume you 
understand that I will express my concerns without asking anyone's 
permission.

Thanks again.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-23 Thread Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS
On 22.01.2021 19:39, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote:
> 
> 
> On 22/01/2021 12:25, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote:
> 
> 
>> JMNSHO.
>>
> eh?

Just My Not So Humble Opinion.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-23 Thread edward via CentOS



On 1/23/2021 6:45 AM, Strahil Nikolov via CentOS wrote:

openSUSE has one big benefit which we do not have with CentOS -> you
can upgrade your openSUSE to pure SUSE (if you need subscription) and
you will be fully supported. RH refused to do that with CentOS - always
reinstall.

appears redhat recently introduced an article  how to convert/upgrade:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2360841
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-23 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
В 18:42 +0100 на 22.01.2021 (пт), Nicolas Kovacs написа:
> Le 22/01/2021 à 18:04, Valeri Galtsev a écrit :
> > I tried SUSE maybe 2-3 years later than you (around 2003). The
> > first thing I
> > disliked was: they have yast on top of standard configurations.
> > First of
> > all, it is quite unpleasant to deal with: infinitely long single
> > file
> > containing all configs. Next, you change one single thing, and yast
> > to
> > enable your change touches all config files.
You need to create extra ".local" files to preserve your
customizations. Totally different from RHEL.


> All the hardcore distribution users out there (Slackware, Arch,
> Gentoo, Crux,
> FreeBSD) like to make fun of YaST.
> 
> Ever tried to connect any Linux or BSD desktop to an LDAPS server
> running Red
> Hat Directory Server for authentication?
> 
> With YaST it's done in less than 30 seconds in half a dozen mouse
> clicks, and
> it JustWorks(tm).

I can confirm that YAST is quite powerful and I wish it was like
'smitty' (AIX) and allow you to invoke it with command line params.

openSUSE has one big benefit which we do not have with CentOS -> you
can upgrade your openSUSE to pure SUSE (if you need subscription) and
you will be fully supported. RH refused to do that with CentOS - always
reinstall.

Also, openSUSE/SUSE introduced booting and reverting from a snapshot.
Now RH is on the same path with the "BOOM Boot Manager".

Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-23 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
В 12:12 +0100 на 22.01.2021 (пт), Ljubomir Ljubojevic написа:
> On 1/22/21 9:29 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote:
> > > Hence it is as good as dead in my mind when looking into the
> > > future, I
> > > am looking for future distro of choice.
> > 
> > A little mentioned choice would be openSUSE, which is direction I
> > am taking.
> 
> I do not like system where configuration app can overwrite manualy
> set
> config.
That's why you need to use ".local" for most of the files to preserve
your settings. SUSE is not another RH clone and it has it's one
specifics.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 05:41:11PM -0600, John R. Dennison wrote:
> I am not sure that speaking in absolutes does anyone any good.

Sure. Anything can happen, but these particular things are highly unlikely,
and not just arbitrarily. If either of them were to happen, there would
absolutely (sorry, can't help it) be worse problems than "can rebuilds still
be made?"

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Valeri Galtsev



On January 22, 2021 5:06:41 PM CST, Matthew Miller  wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 08:35:44PM +, Jamie Burchell wrote:
>> Can RH put a stop to projects like Rocky Linux?
>
>Yes, in two possible ways.
>
>First, Red Hat could stop making RHEL. The amount of work that goes
>into
>this is _quite_ significant, particularly in terms of the long-term
>stability that everyone is very excited about. Rebuild projects would
>then
>have nothing to rebuild.
>
>But, Red Hat isn't going to do that, because RHEL is important to Red
>Hat
>both as a product and as a base for the company's other projects.
>
>Second, Red Hat goes way beyond the obligations of the licenses of many
>of
>the pieces of software that comprise the distribution. Large, vital
>swaths
>of RHEL are not under "copyleft" style licenses. Without the full
>source
>published in a regular and timely manner, rebuilds couldn't exist.
>
>But, Red Hat isn't going to do that, for a number of reasons but mostly
>because free and open source is essential to what Red Hat *is* as a
>company.
>And it's not just a goodwill thing or whatever: everyone from the front
>lines up to the highest levels knows that it's key to our business
>success.

Will not speak about future, but about the past. As external observer for about 
a couple decades I would second that. I always praised RedHat for meticulous 
following GPL. They are required to make available source of their derivative 
work. They do more, as rpms are more than just source. To my folks I maintain 
machines for as sysadmin I always mention as example cygwin. After RedHat 
bought out Cygnus Solutions, they kept cygwin alive, available and active 
project. BTW, cygwin was the first where guest system calls were on the fly 
colverted to host system calls. Which makes virtualization really fast. 
Compared to emulating generic CPU what vmware was doing at that time. No one 
mentions that, but proprietary parallels desktop is doing the same, having 
learned it from cygwin, and VMware later followed the same route I bet. Of 
course, one can only guess about proprietary software.

Not happy about CentOS change, but where credit is due, I can not avoid 
mentioning it.

Valeri


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 06:06:41PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 

I am not sure that speaking in absolutes does anyone any good.





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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread edward via CentOS



On 1/22/2021 7:24 AM, mark wrote:
Well, y'know, right now is sorta like after RH 9, when suddenly there 
was this RHEL, and IIRC, you could get it for free for home/small use, 
then suddenly it was "nope, gotta pay".


Been here before, not happy.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 08:35:44PM +, Jamie Burchell wrote:
> Can RH put a stop to projects like Rocky Linux?

Yes, in two possible ways.

First, Red Hat could stop making RHEL. The amount of work that goes into
this is _quite_ significant, particularly in terms of the long-term
stability that everyone is very excited about. Rebuild projects would then
have nothing to rebuild.

But, Red Hat isn't going to do that, because RHEL is important to Red Hat
both as a product and as a base for the company's other projects.

Second, Red Hat goes way beyond the obligations of the licenses of many of
the pieces of software that comprise the distribution. Large, vital swaths
of RHEL are not under "copyleft" style licenses. Without the full source
published in a regular and timely manner, rebuilds couldn't exist.

But, Red Hat isn't going to do that, for a number of reasons but mostly
because free and open source is essential to what Red Hat *is* as a company.
And it's not just a goodwill thing or whatever: everyone from the front
lines up to the highest levels knows that it's key to our business success.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Phil Perry

On 22/01/2021 21:08, Frank Cox wrote:

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:51:09 +
Jamie Burchell wrote:


So RH could make it difficult for downstream projects such a Rocky Linux.


I don't imagine Redhat will go out of their way to make it easy for Rocky Linux.

But there's a point beyond which they can't go without contravening the GPL 
(and other licenses) so they couldn't do that legally, and there's also a point 
beyond which they'll alienate more of their customers.



At the moment, Red Hat currently make the source code of RHEL 8 
available as push commits to a git repo (git.centos.org) that CentOS 
pull and rebuild.


Once CentOS Linux 8 is gone, this git repository will presumably be gone 
too (or replaced by Stream), so one wonders were the public RHEL sources 
for other projects to rebuild will be :-/


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:51:09 +
Jamie Burchell wrote:

> So RH could make it difficult for downstream projects such a Rocky Linux. 

I don't imagine Redhat will go out of their way to make it easy for Rocky Linux.

But there's a point beyond which they can't go without contravening the GPL 
(and other licenses) so they couldn't do that legally, and there's also a point 
beyond which they'll alienate more of their customers.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Jamie Burchell
So RH could make it difficult for downstream projects such a Rocky Linux. 

> On 22 Jan 2021, at 20:46, Valeri Galtsev  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/22/21 2:39 PM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote:
 Am 22.01.2021 um 21:36 schrieb Jamie Burchell :
>>> 
>>> Can RH put a stop to projects like Rocky Linux?
>> No.
> 
> Theoretically, no. I'm confident solid company will always comply with GNU 
> license.
> 
> But in practice one can change the way source rpms are accessible, which will 
> effectively break scripts of downstream vendor, thus making a lot of 
> unnecessary work on downstream side. And other things.
> 
> That said, no one probably will intentionally do so. But in the past we 
> observed things change in upstream, causing a lot of work/changes in 
> downstream. Observed externally that is.
> 
> Just my $.02.
> 
> Valeri
> 
>>> 
> On 22 Jan 2021, at 18:04, Matthew Miller  wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 07:25:04AM -0500, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS 
> wrote:
> I wonder whether RH plan to fight back FUD they've brought upon by their
> December announcement.
 
 I mean really the only thing we can do is live up to the given plan 
 with
 Stream and RHEL options, which as far as I can see is exactly what's
 happening.
 
> Personally, I found this "no-cost" promise lacking substantial details.
 
 This is just the announcement of it, of course. The full details will be
 there when the whole thing is launched, which the announcement says will be
 very soon.
 
 
> If RH doesn't verify everyone requesting developer subscription (forcing
> to prove identity), the 16 installations limit is easily circumvented by
> multiple registrations.
 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Valeri Galtsev



On 1/22/21 2:39 PM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote:




Am 22.01.2021 um 21:36 schrieb Jamie Burchell :

Can RH put a stop to projects like Rocky Linux?


No.



Theoretically, no. I'm confident solid company will always comply with 
GNU license.


But in practice one can change the way source rpms are accessible, which 
will effectively break scripts of downstream vendor, thus making a lot 
of unnecessary work on downstream side. And other things.


That said, no one probably will intentionally do so. But in the past we 
observed things change in upstream, causing a lot of work/changes in 
downstream. Observed externally that is.


Just my $.02.

Valeri




On 22 Jan 2021, at 18:04, Matthew Miller  wrote:

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 07:25:04AM -0500, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote:
I wonder whether RH plan to fight back FUD they've brought upon by their
December announcement.


I mean really the only thing we can do is live up to the given plan with
Stream and RHEL options, which as far as I can see is exactly what's
happening.


Personally, I found this "no-cost" promise lacking substantial details.


This is just the announcement of it, of course. The full details will be
there when the whole thing is launched, which the announcement says will be
very soon.



If RH doesn't verify everyone requesting developer subscription (forcing
to prove identity), the 16 installations limit is easily circumvented by
multiple registrations.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Jamie Burchell
Good. At least I can consider moving to that without fear of RH pulling the 
plug!

> On 22 Jan 2021, at 20:39, Marc Balmer via CentOS  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 22.01.2021 um 21:36 schrieb Jamie Burchell :
>> 
>> Can RH put a stop to projects like Rocky Linux?
> 
> No.
> 
>> 
> On 22 Jan 2021, at 18:04, Matthew Miller  wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 07:25:04AM -0500, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS 
> wrote:
> I wonder whether RH plan to fight back FUD they've brought upon by their 
> December announcement.
>>> 
>>> I mean really the only thing we can do is live up to the given plan with
>>> Stream and RHEL options, which as far as I can see is exactly what's
>>> happening.
>>> 
 Personally, I found this "no-cost" promise lacking substantial details.
>>> 
>>> This is just the announcement of it, of course. The full details will be
>>> there when the whole thing is launched, which the announcement says will be
>>> very soon.
>>> 
>>> 
 If RH doesn't verify everyone requesting developer subscription (forcing 
 to prove identity), the 16 installations limit is easily circumvented by 
 multiple registrations.
>>> 
>>> There are always going to be cheaters. Don't be one of them.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Marc Balmer via CentOS


> Am 22.01.2021 um 21:36 schrieb Jamie Burchell :
> 
> Can RH put a stop to projects like Rocky Linux?

No.

> 
>>> On 22 Jan 2021, at 18:04, Matthew Miller  wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 07:25:04AM -0500, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS 
>>> wrote:
>>> I wonder whether RH plan to fight back FUD they've brought upon by their 
>>> December announcement.
>> 
>> I mean really the only thing we can do is live up to the given plan with
>> Stream and RHEL options, which as far as I can see is exactly what's
>> happening.
>> 
>>> Personally, I found this "no-cost" promise lacking substantial details.
>> 
>> This is just the announcement of it, of course. The full details will be
>> there when the whole thing is launched, which the announcement says will be
>> very soon.
>> 
>> 
>>> If RH doesn't verify everyone requesting developer subscription (forcing 
>>> to prove identity), the 16 installations limit is easily circumvented by 
>>> multiple registrations.
>> 
>> There are always going to be cheaters. Don't be one of them.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Jamie Burchell
Can RH put a stop to projects like Rocky Linux?

> On 22 Jan 2021, at 18:04, Matthew Miller  wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 07:25:04AM -0500, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS 
> wrote:
>> I wonder whether RH plan to fight back FUD they've brought upon by their 
>> December announcement.
> 
> I mean really the only thing we can do is live up to the given plan with
> Stream and RHEL options, which as far as I can see is exactly what's
> happening.
> 
>> Personally, I found this "no-cost" promise lacking substantial details.
> 
> This is just the announcement of it, of course. The full details will be
> there when the whole thing is launched, which the announcement says will be
> very soon.
> 
> 
>> If RH doesn't verify everyone requesting developer subscription (forcing 
>> to prove identity), the 16 installations limit is easily circumvented by 
>> multiple registrations.
> 
> There are always going to be cheaters. Don't be one of them.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 07:25:04AM -0500, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote:
> I wonder whether RH plan to fight back FUD they've brought upon by their 
> December announcement.

I mean really the only thing we can do is live up to the given plan with
Stream and RHEL options, which as far as I can see is exactly what's
happening.

> Personally, I found this "no-cost" promise lacking substantial details.

This is just the announcement of it, of course. The full details will be
there when the whole thing is launched, which the announcement says will be
very soon.


> If RH doesn't verify everyone requesting developer subscription (forcing 
> to prove identity), the 16 installations limit is easily circumvented by 
> multiple registrations.

There are always going to be cheaters. Don't be one of them.



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Valeri Galtsev



On 1/22/21 11:42 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:

Le 22/01/2021 à 18:04, Valeri Galtsev a écrit :

I tried SUSE maybe 2-3 years later than you (around 2003). The first thing I
disliked was: they have yast on top of standard configurations. First of
all, it is quite unpleasant to deal with: infinitely long single file
containing all configs. Next, you change one single thing, and yast to
enable your change touches all config files. Some time after you made some
change you discover something (unrelated) doesn’t work anymore, and you can
not use timestamps to investigate when bad change happened and how. I was
joking about SUSE with my German friends: how come German tool is named as
abbreviation of English (yet another system tool), not German?


All the hardcore distribution users out there (Slackware, Arch, Gentoo, Crux,
FreeBSD) like to make fun of YaST.



Never heard FreeBSD folks making fun of anybody else, including SUSE. 
And I'm on their lists for very long time. I would say they are the most 
generous, considerate, and forgiving folk of all technical lists I have 
been on.


Valeri


Ever tried to connect any Linux or BSD desktop to an LDAPS server running Red
Hat Directory Server for authentication?

With YaST it's done in less than 30 seconds in half a dozen mouse clicks, and
it JustWorks(tm).

I know because I'm using it in our local school.

Now try and do the same thing on Debian, FreeBSD, Slackware or one of the
*buntus. You'll get a vague idea of what hell looks like.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 22/01/2021 à 18:04, Valeri Galtsev a écrit :
> I tried SUSE maybe 2-3 years later than you (around 2003). The first thing I
> disliked was: they have yast on top of standard configurations. First of
> all, it is quite unpleasant to deal with: infinitely long single file
> containing all configs. Next, you change one single thing, and yast to
> enable your change touches all config files. Some time after you made some
> change you discover something (unrelated) doesn’t work anymore, and you can
> not use timestamps to investigate when bad change happened and how. I was
> joking about SUSE with my German friends: how come German tool is named as
> abbreviation of English (yet another system tool), not German?

All the hardcore distribution users out there (Slackware, Arch, Gentoo, Crux,
FreeBSD) like to make fun of YaST.

Ever tried to connect any Linux or BSD desktop to an LDAPS server running Red
Hat Directory Server for authentication?

With YaST it's done in less than 30 seconds in half a dozen mouse clicks, and
it JustWorks(tm).

I know because I'm using it in our local school.

Now try and do the same thing on Debian, FreeBSD, Slackware or one of the
*buntus. You'll get a vague idea of what hell looks like.

:o)

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Valeri Galtsev



On 1/22/21 9:15 AM, Simon Matter wrote:

Le 21/01/2021 à 23:30, Scott Robbins a écrit :

People pull up all sorts of technical reasons to justify
what is, in the end, an emotional decision.


There is, of course, the possibility to go beyond that. For example, I am
not
exactly fond of Oracle as a company, for reasons you probably know as good
as
me. They did some horrible things to Solaris, MySQL and Java, their CEO


IMHO they didn't do anything horrible to us. They just wasted a lot of
money buying companies and then didn't continue the open source
developments in a way which worked for the community. However the project
are not dead by now, they just run under a different name these days.


supported Trump, etc. But it also happens that they do have one of the


IMHO it's a feature of something called democracy that even CEOs are free
to support whoever they want - without asking anyone and like everybody
else.



Agreeing about freedom of opinion, but can not help to mention: freedom 
of speech belongs more to liberty, not democracy. Democracy (decision of 
majority...) is in its essense a tyranny of majority over minority.


My apologies for adding to political discussion on technical list, which 
better be avoided, so not continuing it and inviting others spare the 
list of politics, religion, and other non-technical issues.


Valeri


better
maintained RHEL clones out there, with fast updates and an excellent
documentation.


For me OL works very well. I've just modified the migration/installation
so that it removes all OL specific stuff like UEK and changes things back
to upstream EL versions. If I ever regret the move to OL I know know quite
well how to migrate to another clone. And I mean a full migration which
changes every bit.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Valeri Galtsev


> On Jan 22, 2021, at 5:12 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic  wrote:
> 
> On 1/22/21 9:29 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote:
>>> Hence it is as good as dead in my mind when looking into the future, I
>>> am looking for future distro of choice.
>> 
>> A little mentioned choice would be openSUSE, which is direction I am taking.
> 
> I do not like system where configuration app can overwrite manualy set
> config. I started with ClarkConnect in 2005-2006 and to route public
> subnet into my network I had to delete last iptables command then add my
> own, but only after config system did it's own iptables commands. I had
> to learn iptables before any other Linux commands and although I
> mastered it, it is left in unpleasant memory (it took me weeks and help
> from rare Linux admins to find a solution).
> 
> I did try SUSE around 2000 but it was complicated to do manual changes
> (if it was not provided in YAST), so after ClarkConnect I had no desire
> to even experiment with YAST.

I tried SUSE maybe 2-3 years later than you (around 2003). The first thing I 
disliked was: they have yast on top of standard configurations. First of all, 
it is quite unpleasant to deal with: infinitely long single file containing all 
configs. Next, you change one single thing, and yast to enable your change 
touches all config files. Some time after you made some change you discover 
something (unrelated) doesn’t work anymore, and you can not use timestamps to 
investigate when bad change happened and how. I was joking about SUSE with my 
German friends: how come German tool is named as abbreviation of English (yet 
another system tool), not German?

But what really did it for me was: stock installation from SUSE DVD (that 
specific release) was easily crashed by program with memory leak run by regular 
user. I replace SUS stock kernel with downloaded and compiled with all default 
option kernel from kernel.org, and it happily kills memory leaking program 
(even the one run by root). Not kernel shipped with SUSE. This: memory leak, 
out of memory condition is one of the tests I usually do when I’m testing 
[quite] new for me system (and some other stuff).

I turned away from SUSE then, and never looked back.

Just my $0.02

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Julio E. Gonzalez

On 1/22/21 1:46 PM, Frank Cox wrote:

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:15:28 +0100
Simon Matter wrote:


OL specific stuff like UEK

Here might be a good place to ask a question that I haven't really found a 
definitive answer to.

What, exactly, is the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel?

RHEL/Centos 8 has kernel version 4.18.  The current Fedora kernel is 5.8.  The 
current kernel listed on the main page of kernel.org is 5.10.

Where does UEK 5.14.x fit in here?  Is it a fixed/enhanced/customized version 
of the current kernel on kernel.org, is it something to do with Fedora, or is 
it something entirely different and unrelated that runs on Oracle's own 
versioning scheme?

And on that note, what does UEK do for you that the standard RHEL kernel 
doesn't?   Would the average schmoe like me actually gain anything by running 
UEK over the standard Redhat kernel if I'm not running stuff like the Oracle 
database?

Oracle UEK kernel is newer (based on 5.4.17 I think), probably support 
more hardware.
Also, Oracle UEK kernel supports BTRFS filesystem, that Redhat don't 
even allow you to use it. I use UEK because this.



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:15:28 +0100
Simon Matter wrote:

> OL specific stuff like UEK 

Here might be a good place to ask a question that I haven't really found a 
definitive answer to.

What, exactly, is the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel?

RHEL/Centos 8 has kernel version 4.18.  The current Fedora kernel is 5.8.  The 
current kernel listed on the main page of kernel.org is 5.10.

Where does UEK 5.14.x fit in here?  Is it a fixed/enhanced/customized version 
of the current kernel on kernel.org, is it something to do with Fedora, or is 
it something entirely different and unrelated that runs on Oracle's own 
versioning scheme?

And on that note, what does UEK do for you that the standard RHEL kernel 
doesn't?   Would the average schmoe like me actually gain anything by running 
UEK over the standard Redhat kernel if I'm not running stuff like the Oracle 
database?

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 22/01/2021 à 16:16, Lamar Owen a écrit :
> For my uses and purposes, Fedora's six month cycle is too fast (I've been on
> that roller coaster before, no desire to go back to it). CentOS Stream's
> continuous release cycle is too fast, especially in the kernel ABI 
> department. 
> I believe that, for my uses at least, a two-to-five year cycle is going to be
> the sweet spot.  And the fact of the matter is that CentOS and the ten-year
> cycle isn't nearly as stable as you might first think; install CentOS 7.0 on a
> test VM and carefully compare to 7.9, especially on the workstation side with
> Firefox and Thunderbird!

Back in 2017, I installed an intranet server for a south french regional
administration. Their intranet CMS was a heavily modded SPIP and depended on
PHP < 5.6. In-house development in these administrations is slow and takes
years. So I simply offered to use CentOS 7 with PHP 5.4 and support until 2024.
They're happy because that leaves them plenty of time.

As for desktops and workstations, I'm a big fan of OpenSUSE Leap, a hybrid
solution based on a semi-rolling model on top of a rock-solid SUSE Linux
Enterprise base system.

On servers, I only run RHEL clones (and sometimes the real thing).

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread mark

On 1/22/21 9:10 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 08:32, Gionatan Danti  wrote:


Il 2021-01-22 13:43 Nikolaos Milas ha scritto:

I think we can expect Rocky Linux to provide a real solution to CentOS
future. We shall know very soon, so let's just wait for a short while.


Hi, there are any specific reasons to not use Spingdale Linux?
As far I know, it already ships a RHEL 8.3 clone.



My guess is that no one wants to go to a new OS alone. They want to go with
all their mailing list buddies but they also want to make a STATEMENT to
stick it in the eye of Red Hat for doing this. Going to a staid and quiet
existing OS doesn't make that statement. Going to a competing company like
Oracle does have the stick in the eye, but it already has its own community
and ways of doing things in an Oracle way. A lot of grumpy old sysadmins
are a drop in the bucket. Now Rocky has no history, no existing community
and a bunch of old sysadmins could jump in and be just like they were
elsewhere. So try and get everyone you know to go there.. [it also doesn't
exist so if it doesn't work out you won't have moved your systems to it and
then found you had to move it something else.]

Well, y'know, right now is sorta like after RH 9, when suddenly there 
was this RHEL, and IIRC, you could get it for free for home/small use, 
then suddenly it was "nope, gotta pay".


Been here before, not happy.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Lamar Owen

On 1/21/21 5:50 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Debian has an average of two years[*] per support. Oracle has ten like 
upstream RHEL. Choice is pretty clear to me. [*] one year after 
subsequent release, so an average of one to three years depending on 
installation date


So, I want to address the "ten years of support" albatross.  On the 
surface, ten years of support sounds like a big win; it certainly did to 
me back when it was first introduced.  I have found that the reality is 
far more nuanced than that.  I have found in my own career that the "ten 
years of support" argument has made me lazy in keeping up with newer 
technologies and methodologies, stagnant in my own server and 
workstation deployments, and increasingly frustrated once the 
five-to-seven year point has passed in what I can't do or can't build 
because "ten years support!  Stability! Stability! Stability at all costs!"


For my uses and purposes, Fedora's six month cycle is too fast (I've 
been on that roller coaster before, no desire to go back to it). CentOS 
Stream's continuous release cycle is too fast, especially in the kernel 
ABI department.  I believe that, for my uses at least, a two-to-five 
year cycle is going to be the sweet spot.  And the fact of the matter is 
that CentOS and the ten-year cycle isn't nearly as stable as you might 
first think; install CentOS 7.0 on a test VM and carefully compare to 
7.9, especially on the workstation side with Firefox and Thunderbird!


Further, when it's budget time, updating stagnating services running on 
a stagnant OS becomes an easy mark for cutting from the budget, because 
"ten years!" - until those ten years are over and you find out that 
you've just delayed all the effort into one lump instead of spreading it 
out a little bit each year or two (or three to five).


But ten-year stagn^H^H^H^Hupport also makes me less marketable if I were 
to need to change jobs, especially if that ten-year stability has 
calloused my learning skills to the point that I feel personally 
threatened by major changes to, say, the init system underneath everything.


So, in my career, I'm not sure relying on ten-year support has been a 
good thing.  YMMV as I'm sure there are places where ten years of 
support really is critical; just not for me.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Simon Matter
> Le 21/01/2021 à 23:30, Scott Robbins a écrit :
>> People pull up all sorts of technical reasons to justify
>> what is, in the end, an emotional decision.
>
> There is, of course, the possibility to go beyond that. For example, I am
> not
> exactly fond of Oracle as a company, for reasons you probably know as good
> as
> me. They did some horrible things to Solaris, MySQL and Java, their CEO

IMHO they didn't do anything horrible to us. They just wasted a lot of
money buying companies and then didn't continue the open source
developments in a way which worked for the community. However the project
are not dead by now, they just run under a different name these days.

> supported Trump, etc. But it also happens that they do have one of the

IMHO it's a feature of something called democracy that even CEOs are free
to support whoever they want - without asking anyone and like everybody
else.

> better
> maintained RHEL clones out there, with fast updates and an excellent
> documentation.

For me OL works very well. I've just modified the migration/installation
so that it removes all OL specific stuff like UEK and changes things back
to upstream EL versions. If I ever regret the move to OL I know know quite
well how to migrate to another clone. And I mean a full migration which
changes every bit.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Lamar Owen

On 1/22/21 9:10 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
My guess is that no one wants to go to a new OS alone. They want to go 
with all their mailing list buddies but they also want to make a 
STATEMENT to stick it in the eye of Red Hat for doing this. Going to a 
staid and quiet existing OS doesn't make that statement. Going to a 
competing company like Oracle does have the stick in the eye, but it 
already has its own community and ways of doing things in an Oracle way. 


Well said.  The 'in your face!' attitude of 'sticking it to The Man' is 
pretty juvenile.


I'm going to be transitioning to the most staid and quiet of those 
choices myself.  It will be like starting over from scratch in terms of 
community, and at this point in my career I think that's ok.  If the 
need were to arise like it arose for me back in 1999 when I stepped up 
in Red Hat Land to maintain the upstream PostgreSQL RPMs then I would 
step right in as a newcomer and build a reputation in that community.  
There's something to be said for starting from scratch with a nearly new 
reputation; while your successes won't follow you, neither will your 
failures!


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 08:32, Gionatan Danti  wrote:

> Il 2021-01-22 13:43 Nikolaos Milas ha scritto:
> > I think we can expect Rocky Linux to provide a real solution to CentOS
> > future. We shall know very soon, so let's just wait for a short while.
>
> Hi, there are any specific reasons to not use Spingdale Linux?
> As far I know, it already ships a RHEL 8.3 clone.
>
>
My guess is that no one wants to go to a new OS alone. They want to go with
all their mailing list buddies but they also want to make a STATEMENT to
stick it in the eye of Red Hat for doing this. Going to a staid and quiet
existing OS doesn't make that statement. Going to a competing company like
Oracle does have the stick in the eye, but it already has its own community
and ways of doing things in an Oracle way. A lot of grumpy old sysadmins
are a drop in the bucket. Now Rocky has no history, no existing community
and a bunch of old sysadmins could jump in and be just like they were
elsewhere. So try and get everyone you know to go there.. [it also doesn't
exist so if it doesn't work out you won't have moved your systems to it and
then found you had to move it something else.]


> Thanks.
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Valeri Galtsev


> On Jan 22, 2021, at 6:43 AM, Nikolaos Milas  wrote:
> 
> On 22/1/2021 2:25 μ.μ., Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote:
> 
>> Also, I can still expect they will again change their mind close to
>> 2021's end. In short, I have hard time trusting RH in such a situation.
> 

Then flee from RedHat AND clones. RedHat can do things making life of clones 
hard, different, constantly needing to invest into change. And they may give up.

But it is your decision about your future, and yours to deal with consequences.

Am I not stating the obvious?

Valeri

> That's exactly how I feel too. I don't trust them.
> 
> I think we can expect Rocky Linux to provide a real solution to CentOS 
> future. We shall know very soon, so let's just wait for a short while.
> 
> There is such a huge (staggering) number of CentOS installed base, esp. 
> including service providers (hosts etc.), that the market NEEDS a real 
> reliable successor of CentOS. This need cannot be covered by RHEL new 
> licensing. A real open source, community solution will be needed; for the 
> time being, Rocky Linux seems to have the right specs to fill the gap.
> 
> The market itself will finance (through donations) its future, because it is 
> a real need. A CentOS successor is a real need.
> 
> OL will be last resort, but I believe Rocky Linux will most probably be the 
> way to go. It displays good momentum, steady progress and great manpower.
> 
> My 2c.
> 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 12:39:08PM +, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote:
> 
> 
> On 22/01/2021 12:25, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote:
> 
> 
> > JMNSHO.

Just My Not So Humble Opinion.

I wonder if it's just because I'm old, but I do get tired of acronyms,
especially when people actually say O M G or L O L.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 21/01/2021 à 23:30, Scott Robbins a écrit :
> People pull up all sorts of technical reasons to justify 
> what is, in the end, an emotional decision.

There is, of course, the possibility to go beyond that. For example, I am not
exactly fond of Oracle as a company, for reasons you probably know as good as
me. They did some horrible things to Solaris, MySQL and Java, their CEO
supported Trump, etc. But it also happens that they do have one of the better
maintained RHEL clones out there, with fast updates and an excellent
documentation.

Of course our first response will always be more or less emotional (see Malcolm
Gladwell's fascinating book "Blink" on the subject). But I think it's part of
our work routine to recognize that and go beyond it.

Cheers,

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Gionatan Danti

Il 2021-01-22 13:43 Nikolaos Milas ha scritto:

I think we can expect Rocky Linux to provide a real solution to CentOS
future. We shall know very soon, so let's just wait for a short while.


Hi, there are any specific reasons to not use Spingdale Linux?
As far I know, it already ships a RHEL 8.3 clone.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Nikolaos Milas

On 22/1/2021 2:25 μ.μ., Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote:


Also, I can still expect they will again change their mind close to
2021's end. In short, I have hard time trusting RH in such a situation.


That's exactly how I feel too. I don't trust them.

I think we can expect Rocky Linux to provide a real solution to CentOS 
future. We shall know very soon, so let's just wait for a short while.


There is such a huge (staggering) number of CentOS installed base, esp. 
including service providers (hosts etc.), that the market NEEDS a real 
reliable successor of CentOS. This need cannot be covered by RHEL new 
licensing. A real open source, community solution will be needed; for 
the time being, Rocky Linux seems to have the right specs to fill the gap.


The market itself will finance (through donations) its future, because 
it is a real need. A CentOS successor is a real need.


OL will be last resort, but I believe Rocky Linux will most probably be 
the way to go. It displays good momentum, steady progress and great 
manpower.


My 2c.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS




On 22/01/2021 12:25, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote:



JMNSHO.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS
On 21.01.2021 22:46, Victor Pereira wrote:
> I see that this is as an impulse for Fedora so that we as users do not
> leave RedHat after the news ... even so I still think how good it is for
> the linux community this whole situation makes us a good shakeup.
> Cheers,

I wonder whether RH plan to fight back FUD they've brought upon by their 
December announcement.

Personally, I found this "no-cost" promise lacking substantial details.

If RH doesn't verify everyone requesting developer subscription (forcing 
to prove identity), the 16 installations limit is easily circumvented by 
multiple registrations.

If they *do* request identity verification (i.e. copy of ID, phone, 
email, physical address... etc etc, up to last will in favor of RH), 
then I am even more uneasy having voluntarily provided them with 
personal data which are  treasure for any marketing purpose they could 
imagine.

Also, I can still expect they will again change their mind close to 
2021's end. In short, I have hard time trusting RH in such a situation. 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 1/22/21 9:29 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote:
>> Hence it is as good as dead in my mind when looking into the future, I
>> am looking for future distro of choice.
> 
> A little mentioned choice would be openSUSE, which is direction I am taking.

I do not like system where configuration app can overwrite manualy set
config. I started with ClarkConnect in 2005-2006 and to route public
subnet into my network I had to delete last iptables command then add my
own, but only after config system did it's own iptables commands. I had
to learn iptables before any other Linux commands and although I
mastered it, it is left in unpleasant memory (it took me weeks and help
from rare Linux admins to find a solution).

I did try SUSE around 2000 but it was complicated to do manual changes
(if it was not provided in YAST), so after ClarkConnect I had no desire
to even experiment with YAST.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Jos Vos
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 05:30:33PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:

   Like Valeri, I have a fondness for FreeBSD. Regardless, I think Nicolas is
   correct. I remember reading a post in an old usenet (I think) discussion of
   mutt vs. pine (before it became alpine) where someone said words to the
   effect of, People pull up all sorts of technical reasons to justify 
   what is, in the end, an emotional decision. 

Don't forget "elm" :-) :-)...  And to make it even more complex: the
outcome of all those half emotional, half technical decisions vary
during the time.  Projects may (slowly) die or get a huge momentum,
licenses change (!), etc.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Marc Balmer via CentOS



> Am 22.01.2021 um 08:40 schrieb Ljubomir Ljubojevic :
> 
> On 1/21/21 11:40 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:36:44PM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>>> On 1/21/21 8:53 PM, Alfredo Perez wrote:
 Is this good news for the "Centos" family?
 
>>> 
>>> There is no CentOS "family". CentOS clone is dead and will be now
>> 
>> Odd that you say it's dead when 7 doesn't sunset until June 30th, 2024.
>> 
> 
> Maybe not best choice of the word, but I meant there will not be further
> development on that front. CentOS 7 cloning will be just rinse and
> repeat of established process. If CentOS 8 was not killed almost no one
> would have installed CentOS 7 on any new server (keeping in mind desire
> for 10-year til EOL), so I see CentOS 7 as close to EOL and his
> usefulness for new systems will only decrease.

I couldn't agree more.

> 
> Hence it is as good as dead in my mind when looking into the future, I
> am looking for future distro of choice.

A little mentioned choice would be openSUSE, which is direction I am taking.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 1/21/21 11:40 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:36:44PM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>> On 1/21/21 8:53 PM, Alfredo Perez wrote:
>>> Is this good news for the "Centos" family?
>>>
>>
>> There is no CentOS "family". CentOS clone is dead and will be now
> 
> Odd that you say it's dead when 7 doesn't sunset until June 30th, 2024.
> 

Maybe not best choice of the word, but I meant there will not be further
development on that front. CentOS 7 cloning will be just rinse and
repeat of established process. If CentOS 8 was not killed almost no one
would have installed CentOS 7 on any new server (keeping in mind desire
for 10-year til EOL), so I see CentOS 7 as close to EOL and his
usefulness for new systems will only decrease.

Hence it is as good as dead in my mind when looking into the future, I
am looking for future distro of choice.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:15:50PM +, Phil Perry wrote:
> 
> Surely anyone requiring less than 16 licences will now ditch CentOS 7 in
> favour of RHEL7? The rest may stay on CentOS 7 for a year or so until there
> is a clearer picture around viable alternatives. This may as well become the
> RHEL users list and CentOS-Devel effectively becomes the CentOS-Stream
> mailing list?

I have no plans on moving to RHEL7; it's work that doesn't need to be
done.

And let's face it, centos-devel@ has been nothing but RH noise since
2014; I've suggested renaming it, and #centos-devel for what it's worth,
on a couple different occasions.






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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Steve Thompson

On Thu, 21 Jan 2021, Phil Perry wrote:


On 21/01/2021 22:40, John R. Dennison wrote:
Surely anyone requiring less than 16 licences will now ditch CentOS 7 in 
favour of RHEL7?


Drat. I have 25 systems at home running CentOS 7.9, and one system running 
OEL 7.9.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS

Hi Nick,

There's always Springdale: https://puias.math.ias.edu/


On 21/01/2021 22:00, Antonio Leding wrote:

Thanks Nick,

I was just writing a post to solicit opinions on a good goto distro for 
CentOS replacement.  I am somewhat dubious on wanting to move to 
free-RHEL and based on what you’ve said here, looks like Rocky deserves 
my attention…


If it does indeed become the successor as you’ve suggested, let’s just 
hope we can keep it from being acquired by RH or any other party. Seems 
to me that once RH decided to help CentOS out and mandated RH majority 
on the board, the writing was on the wall for what occurred in Dec…


- - -

On 21 Jan 2021, at 13:34, Nikolaos Milas wrote:


On 21/1/2021 11:17 μ.μ., Valeri Galtsev wrote:

I tried Oracle Linux. After installation it took forever to update 
yum database, or do you yum search. Also: I didn't find mirrors... 
All this sort of ruled it out for me.


Don't worry, Rocky Linux is in good track; Latest update:

https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/community-update-january-2021/1667

It will be with us very soon, and the formerly CentOS community is 
very active on it!


I am very optimistic with it.

RH is trying to catch all those CentOS users/admins who will jump off 
the train to shift to Rocky Linux (or other), but I think Rocky Linux 
will become the natural successor.


The future is close, we shall see.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Phil Perry

On 21/01/2021 22:40, John R. Dennison wrote:

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:36:44PM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:

On 1/21/21 8:53 PM, Alfredo Perez wrote:

Is this good news for the "Centos" family?



There is no CentOS "family". CentOS clone is dead and will be now


Odd that you say it's dead when 7 doesn't sunset until June 30th, 2024.




Surely anyone requiring less than 16 licences will now ditch CentOS 7 in 
favour of RHEL7? The rest may stay on CentOS 7 for a year or so until 
there is a clearer picture around viable alternatives. This may as well 
become the RHEL users list and CentOS-Devel effectively becomes the 
CentOS-Stream mailing list?


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Valeri Galtsev




On 1/21/21 4:53 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:


Fun fact: if a big part of my job didn't consist in teaching Linux and writing
books about it, I'd probably be running FreeBSD myself.


Understandable. The big part of Microsoft is selling their operating 
system, for servers included, and even they were caught running FreeBSD 
on some of their servers at some point ;-)


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Valeri Galtsev



On 1/21/21 4:50 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:

Le 21/01/2021 à 23:18, Valeri Galtsev a écrit :

No, I already streamlined Debian routine installation (workstations and number
crunchers), and servers run FreeBSD since lng ago, so I'm all set, and much
better than in the past ;-)

Thanks though.


Debian has an average of two years[*] per support.


There is "stretch", which is equivalent of more known as LTS of Ubuntu: 
5 years. And then, there is easy in place upgrade from regular or 
"stretch" to next release.


But no, I will not argue against uniqueness of 10 year life cycle of 
RedHat. I just said that my life [with Debian] will be no bigger hassle 
than it was [with CentOS].


The only difference of Debian is: it has vast collection of everything, 
so you really need to make your own choices. But if it's done once, you 
can in one go tell next installation to install all the same software 
(packages). Of course, I, being a simple guy, had much simpler life with 
CentOS, just choose all software groups that sound relevant... (jus 
grossly exaggerating ;-) But with huge collection like Debian one (or 
like FreeBSD ports are, or macports for MacOS) once you spent time 
shaping system to your preference, you are done, and all next systems 
are rather routine, almost as unattended as RedHat/CentOS kickstart 
install is.


Valeri



Oracle has ten like upstream RHEL.

Choice is pretty clear to me.

[*] one year after subsequent release, so an average of one to three years
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 21/01/2021 à 23:23, Stephen John Smoogen a écrit :
> I think from years of posting that FreeBSD is how Valeri's brain works best
> and that is cool. Some people have certain OS paradigms where they function
> best and are able to solve problems better than another system. For other
> people it might be a completely 'brainjam' type thing [sort of like when
> people try using my tools and find many of them are left-handed.. things
> look the same but they don't work 'correctly' for some reason.] but if you
> find the tool you work best in for an enterprise and your customers are
> happy so be it.

Fun fact: if a big part of my job didn't consist in teaching Linux and writing
books about it, I'd probably be running FreeBSD myself.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 21/01/2021 à 23:18, Valeri Galtsev a écrit :
> No, I already streamlined Debian routine installation (workstations and number
> crunchers), and servers run FreeBSD since lng ago, so I'm all set, and 
> much
> better than in the past ;-)
> 
> Thanks though.

Debian has an average of two years[*] per support.

Oracle has ten like upstream RHEL.

Choice is pretty clear to me.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:36:44PM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> On 1/21/21 8:53 PM, Alfredo Perez wrote:
> > Is this good news for the "Centos" family?
> > 
> 
> There is no CentOS "family". CentOS clone is dead and will be now

Odd that you say it's dead when 7 doesn't sunset until June 30th, 2024.





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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Valeri Galtsev




On 1/21/21 4:30 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 05:23:24PM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 at 17:15, Nicolas Kovacs  wrote:





I think from years of posting that FreeBSD is how Valeri's brain works best
and that is cool. Some people have certain OS paradigms where they function
best and are able to solve problems better than another system.


Like Valeri, I have a fondness for FreeBSD. Regardless, I think Nicolas is
correct. I remember reading a post in an old usenet (I think) discussion of
mutt vs. pine (before it became alpine) where someone said words to the
effect of, People pull up all sorts of technical reasons to justify
what is, in the end, an emotional decision.


I learned one truth working for many years for scientists: the best 
thing is what works best for _YOU_, with which YOU are most efficient.


I do keep bringing up FreeBSD, as I conscientiously switched servers to 
it. And during first maybe year I was catching myself with "Linuxisms" 
on FreeBSD. Later I often caught myself with "FreeBSD-isms" on Linux. 
But if your future road is long, then at the pivoting point it really is 
good to step up above everything and estimate (with open mind) what 
might be beneficial in your future. That is why I bring up non-Linux 
system I know (more or less). Were I knowing others as well (OpenBSD, 
NetBSD, ...) I would be mentioning them too.


And all that in a hope it may help someone (and with understanding it 
may annoy many).


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 1/21/21 8:53 PM, Alfredo Perez wrote:
> Is this good news for the "Centos" family?
> 

There is no CentOS "family". CentOS clone is dead and will be now
replaced with no-cost RHEL, so in market share (over time) CentOS will
be replaced with RHEL.
CentOS Stream will be used solely by developers and and entities like
Facebook (as a base for their own in house solution).
With 16-system no-cost production license package there might be drop in
RHEL clone demand, and some Oracle users might decide to move to RHEL
(but this is total unknown depending on perception of Red Hat and Oracle
in peoples minds).


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 05:23:24PM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 at 17:15, Nicolas Kovacs  wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> I think from years of posting that FreeBSD is how Valeri's brain works best
> and that is cool. Some people have certain OS paradigms where they function
> best and are able to solve problems better than another system. 

Like Valeri, I have a fondness for FreeBSD. Regardless, I think Nicolas is
correct. I remember reading a post in an old usenet (I think) discussion of
mutt vs. pine (before it became alpine) where someone said words to the
effect of, People pull up all sorts of technical reasons to justify 
what is, in the end, an emotional decision. 


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 at 17:15, Nicolas Kovacs  wrote:

> Le 21/01/2021 à 22:17, Valeri Galtsev a écrit :
> > I tried Oracle Linux. After installation it took forever to update yum
> > database, or do you yum search. Also: I didn't find mirrors... All this
> sort of
> > ruled it out for me.
>
> Works perfectly here:
>
> https://gitlab.com/kikinovak/oracle/-/blob/master/linux-setup.sh
>
> You might want to give it another spin.
>
>
I think from years of posting that FreeBSD is how Valeri's brain works best
and that is cool. Some people have certain OS paradigms where they function
best and are able to solve problems better than another system. For other
people it might be a completely 'brainjam' type thing [sort of like when
people try using my tools and find many of them are left-handed.. things
look the same but they don't work 'correctly' for some reason.] but if you
find the tool you work best in for an enterprise and your customers are
happy so be it.



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Valeri Galtsev



On 1/21/21 4:15 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:

Le 21/01/2021 à 22:17, Valeri Galtsev a écrit :

I tried Oracle Linux. After installation it took forever to update yum
database, or do you yum search. Also: I didn't find mirrors... All this sort of
ruled it out for me.


Works perfectly here:

https://gitlab.com/kikinovak/oracle/-/blob/master/linux-setup.sh

You might want to give it another spin.



No, I already streamlined Debian routine installation (workstations and 
number crunchers), and servers run FreeBSD since lng ago, so I'm all 
set, and much better than in the past ;-)


Thanks though.

Valeri


Cheers,

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 21/01/2021 à 22:39, Valeri Galtsev a écrit :
> Maybe my problem was I used yum, not dnf command.

Oracle's documentation is at least as well-written as the FreeBSD handbook.

https://www.oracle.com/linux/technologies/

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 21/01/2021 à 22:17, Valeri Galtsev a écrit :
> I tried Oracle Linux. After installation it took forever to update yum
> database, or do you yum search. Also: I didn't find mirrors... All this sort 
> of
> ruled it out for me.

Works perfectly here:

https://gitlab.com/kikinovak/oracle/-/blob/master/linux-setup.sh

You might want to give it another spin.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Antonio Leding

Thanks Nick,

I was just writing a post to solicit opinions on a good goto distro for 
CentOS replacement.  I am somewhat dubious on wanting to move to 
free-RHEL and based on what you’ve said here, looks like Rocky 
deserves my attention…


If it does indeed become the successor as you’ve suggested, let’s 
just hope we can keep it from being acquired by RH or any other party.  
Seems to me that once RH decided to help CentOS out and mandated RH 
majority on the board, the writing was on the wall for what occurred in 
Dec…


- - -

On 21 Jan 2021, at 13:34, Nikolaos Milas wrote:


On 21/1/2021 11:17 μ.μ., Valeri Galtsev wrote:

I tried Oracle Linux. After installation it took forever to update 
yum database, or do you yum search. Also: I didn't find mirrors... 
All this sort of ruled it out for me.


Don't worry, Rocky Linux is in good track; Latest update:

https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/community-update-january-2021/1667

It will be with us very soon, and the formerly CentOS community is 
very active on it!


I am very optimistic with it.

RH is trying to catch all those CentOS users/admins who will jump off 
the train to shift to Rocky Linux (or other), but I think Rocky Linux 
will become the natural successor.


The future is close, we shall see.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Valeri Galtsev




On 1/21/21 3:31 PM, Frank Cox wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:17:04 -0600
Valeri Galtsev wrote:


I tried Oracle Linux. After installation it took forever to update yum
database, or do you yum search. Also: I didn't find mirrors... All this
sort of ruled it out for me. Mind that I have 1 Gbps network...


So far I've installed Oracle Linux on one laptop.  What I got was exactly what I expected 
to get, and I didn't have any issues at all.  "dnf upgrade" worked exactly as 
expected and at pretty much exactly the same speed as it does on Centos, too.



Maybe my problem was I used yum, not dnf command. Or maybe my locality 
of specifically my domain is not favored by oracle. Or maybe other way 
around, my network admins... But then, mine is just a single 
installation, exactly as you told about yours ;-)


Valeri


But that's just one installation.  I haven't done anything else with OL yet at 
all.



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread edward via CentOS



On 1/21/21 1:17 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
After installation it took forever to update yum database, or do you 
yum search. Also: I didn't find mirrors...



I don't think mirrors exist. appears updates comes directly from Oracle 
this way their users/clients know those servers are always there with 
the latest software.


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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Nikolaos Milas

On 21/1/2021 11:17 μ.μ., Valeri Galtsev wrote:

I tried Oracle Linux. After installation it took forever to update yum 
database, or do you yum search. Also: I didn't find mirrors... All 
this sort of ruled it out for me.


Don't worry, Rocky Linux is in good track; Latest update:

https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/community-update-january-2021/1667

It will be with us very soon, and the formerly CentOS community is very 
active on it!


I am very optimistic with it.

RH is trying to catch all those CentOS users/admins who will jump off 
the train to shift to Rocky Linux (or other), but I think Rocky Linux 
will become the natural successor.


The future is close, we shall see.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:17:04 -0600
Valeri Galtsev wrote:

> I tried Oracle Linux. After installation it took forever to update yum 
> database, or do you yum search. Also: I didn't find mirrors... All this 
> sort of ruled it out for me. Mind that I have 1 Gbps network...

So far I've installed Oracle Linux on one laptop.  What I got was exactly what 
I expected to get, and I didn't have any issues at all.  "dnf upgrade" worked 
exactly as expected and at pretty much exactly the same speed as it does on 
Centos, too.

But that's just one installation.  I haven't done anything else with OL yet at 
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Valeri Galtsev




On 1/21/21 2:24 PM, Frank Cox wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:57:19 -0600
Scott Techlist wrote:


So this will muddy the waters for the spin-offs like Rocky Linux, or kill
them?  I'd assume at least it would dilute who'd need an alternate Centos
replacement except those with more than 16 servers.  Or did I misunderstand
the announcement?


I don't see how this would create any issues for Rocky Linux and the like.  The 
new RHEL terms still require annual license activations (for every installation 
I think) and that's a point of friction that doesn't exist with Linux 
installations that are actually free.

With this new offering I've got to count my installations, track which ones I've torn 
down, which ones I've updated, which ones I've scrapped, which ones I'm running in a VM 
and which ones that I've installed on an "appliance" in the dusty corner to 
running a printing press, and when I get to the sixteenth installation then I need to pay 
up or start decommissioning stuff

Or I could use a license-not-required distribution like Rocky or Oracle and 
avoid all of that.


I tried Oracle Linux. After installation it took forever to update yum 
database, or do you yum search. Also: I didn't find mirrors... All this 
sort of ruled it out for me. Mind that I have 1 Gbps network...


So my shop: servers: FreeBSD  (for decade or so, since FreeBSD v. 8), 
number crunchers and workstations: Debian except for those that need 
NVIDIA binary driver or cuda, these rare ones will be Ubuntu.


In a hope this helps someone,

Valeri



I've got a number of machines with certain clients who bring their machine back 
to me every year or two (or whenever they figure they can spare it and happen 
to be heading this way) for updating.  I might not see one of those machines 
for a few years; they may not have any Internet connection in the field so it 
could be interesting if the machines tell them (or me) to buzz off because the 
license has expired.

If there were no other options then I guess there would have to be a way 
figured out to make this work anyway, but there are options and those options 
are certainly more attractive than dealing with license activations and all of 
the joy surrounding that sort of thing.



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Jamie Burchell
The RHEL announcement is of no use to me or my company. We spin up DigitalOcean 
droplets for each of our client websites/apps. If we were utilising horizontal 
scaling we'd have even more droplets per website/app. We'd easily have over 16 
installations.

> On 21 Jan 2021, at 19:57, Scott Techlist  wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> See:
>> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/
>> and
>> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel
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> 
> So this will muddy the waters for the spin-offs like Rocky Linux, or kill 
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> replacement except those with more than 16 servers.  Or did I misunderstand 
> the announcement?
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:57:19 -0600
Scott Techlist wrote:

> So this will muddy the waters for the spin-offs like Rocky Linux, or kill
> them?  I'd assume at least it would dilute who'd need an alternate Centos
> replacement except those with more than 16 servers.  Or did I misunderstand
> the announcement?

I don't see how this would create any issues for Rocky Linux and the like.  The 
new RHEL terms still require annual license activations (for every installation 
I think) and that's a point of friction that doesn't exist with Linux 
installations that are actually free.

With this new offering I've got to count my installations, track which ones 
I've torn down, which ones I've updated, which ones I've scrapped, which ones 
I'm running in a VM and which ones that I've installed on an "appliance" in the 
dusty corner to running a printing press, and when I get to the sixteenth 
installation then I need to pay up or start decommissioning stuff

Or I could use a license-not-required distribution like Rocky or Oracle and 
avoid all of that.

I've got a number of machines with certain clients who bring their machine back 
to me every year or two (or whenever they figure they can spare it and happen 
to be heading this way) for updating.  I might not see one of those machines 
for a few years; they may not have any Internet connection in the field so it 
could be interesting if the machines tell them (or me) to buzz off because the 
license has expired.

If there were no other options then I guess there would have to be a way 
figured out to make this work anyway, but there are options and those options 
are certainly more attractive than dealing with license activations and all of 
the joy surrounding that sort of thing.

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Scott Techlist
>See:
>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/
>and
>https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel
>--
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So this will muddy the waters for the spin-offs like Rocky Linux, or kill them? 
 I'd assume at least it would dilute who'd need an alternate Centos replacement 
except those with more than 16 servers.  Or did I misunderstand the 
announcement?



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Alfredo Perez
Is this good news for the "Centos" family?

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:35 AM Victor Pereira 
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> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:12 PM Hugh E Cruickshank 
> wrote:
>
> > From: Victor Pereira Sent: January 21, 2021 07:47
> > >
> > > I see that this is as an impulse for Fedora so that we as users do not
> > > leave RedHat after the news ... even so I still think how good it is
> > > for the linux community this whole situation makes us a good shakeup.
> >
> > While I while I welcome the Red Hat announcement I really could do
> > without the "shakeup" and all the additional work that it triggers.
> >
> > Regards, Hugh
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Victor Pereira
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:12 PM Hugh E Cruickshank  wrote:

> From: Victor Pereira Sent: January 21, 2021 07:47
> >
> > I see that this is as an impulse for Fedora so that we as users do not
> > leave RedHat after the news ... even so I still think how good it is
> > for the linux community this whole situation makes us a good shakeup.
>
> While I while I welcome the Red Hat announcement I really could do
> without the "shakeup" and all the additional work that it triggers.
>
> Regards, Hugh
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Victor Pereira Sent: January 21, 2021 07:47
> 
> I see that this is as an impulse for Fedora so that we as users do not
> leave RedHat after the news ... even so I still think how good it is
> for the linux community this whole situation makes us a good shakeup.

While I while I welcome the Red Hat announcement I really could do
without the "shakeup" and all the additional work that it triggers.

Regards, Hugh

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Victor Pereira
I see that this is as an impulse for Fedora so that we as users do not
leave RedHat after the news ... even so I still think how good it is for
the linux community this whole situation makes us a good shakeup.
Cheers,

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 8:57 PM Kay Schenk  wrote:

> Thanks for the info! I will pass it along!
>
> On 1/20/21 7:02 AM, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote:
> > See:
> >
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/
> >
> > and
> >
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel
> >
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-20 Thread Kay Schenk

Thanks for the info! I will pass it along!

On 1/20/21 7:02 AM, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote:
See: 
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/ 


and
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel 



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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-20 Thread mario juliano grande-balletta
finalmente!
era ora!
On Wed, 2021-01-20 at 22:40 +0100, paride desimone wrote:
> De Profundis
> Il giorno mer 20 gen 2021 alle ore 16:02 J Martin Rushton via CentOS<
> centos@centos.org> ha scritto:
> 
> See:
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/andhttps://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel--J
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-20 Thread paride desimone
De Profundis

Il giorno mer 20 gen 2021 alle ore 16:02 J Martin Rushton via CentOS
 ha scritto:
>
> See:
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/
> and
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel
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