Some of you folks who use Linux may find this interesting.
For a fair number of years I've been using Centos for pretty much everything that I do. Centos is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and it's a really stable no-surprises Linux. No latest and greatest shiny stuff but (hopefully) no huge explosions either.
Enterprise Linux. The clue is in the name.
As of a few years ago Red Hat owns Centos too and they have decided (effective December 31 2021) to make Centos into a test version for the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux instead of a free clone of RHEL.
Nobody who uses Centos likes this idea much, of course, so the original Centos developers have returned and are now making Rocky Linux.
Earlier this year I seriously considered switching to Oracle Linux, which is another RHEL clone, but at the time I figured there was no rush to do anything so I could just sit back and see how things shook out over the course of the year. I even set up a laptop with Oracle to try it out. And there's still nothing exactly wrong with Oracle Linux as such except that it's such a black box as far as development is concerned; everything seems to be just a one way black hole in that regard.
Rocky, on the other hand, is now pretty much what Centos was and has been up to this point: a RHEL clone with a different name logo.
Since the EOL for Centos 8 is December 31 and since I seem to have a fair bit of extra free time these days *cough* the time has come to deal with this issue.
My main computer (this one) is running on Rocky right now and there's absolutely no difference between this and Centos other than the logo that it shows you when it's booting up.
Rocky has a nifty do-it-all migration script migrate2rocky.sh that really does do everything for you. Anyone with a Centos 8 installation can just run that script. It replaces everything Centos with everything Rocky and when it's done you reboot and have exactly what you had before, except now it's a Rocky Linux installation. Literally, that's all it takes to switch from Centos. Download the migration script, run it, come back in an hour or so and reboot when it's done.
Now my computers will be running Rocky and I'll be using that for all future projects instead of Centos.
For a fair number of years I've been using Centos for pretty much everything that I do. Centos is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and it's a really stable no-surprises Linux. No latest and greatest shiny stuff but (hopefully) no huge explosions either.
Enterprise Linux. The clue is in the name.
As of a few years ago Red Hat owns Centos too and they have decided (effective December 31 2021) to make Centos into a test version for the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux instead of a free clone of RHEL.
Nobody who uses Centos likes this idea much, of course, so the original Centos developers have returned and are now making Rocky Linux.
Earlier this year I seriously considered switching to Oracle Linux, which is another RHEL clone, but at the time I figured there was no rush to do anything so I could just sit back and see how things shook out over the course of the year. I even set up a laptop with Oracle to try it out. And there's still nothing exactly wrong with Oracle Linux as such except that it's such a black box as far as development is concerned; everything seems to be just a one way black hole in that regard.
Rocky, on the other hand, is now pretty much what Centos was and has been up to this point: a RHEL clone with a different name logo.
Since the EOL for Centos 8 is December 31 and since I seem to have a fair bit of extra free time these days *cough* the time has come to deal with this issue.
My main computer (this one) is running on Rocky right now and there's absolutely no difference between this and Centos other than the logo that it shows you when it's booting up.
Rocky has a nifty do-it-all migration script migrate2rocky.sh that really does do everything for you. Anyone with a Centos 8 installation can just run that script. It replaces everything Centos with everything Rocky and when it's done you reboot and have exactly what you had before, except now it's a Rocky Linux installation. Literally, that's all it takes to switch from Centos. Download the migration script, run it, come back in an hour or so and reboot when it's done.
Now my computers will be running Rocky and I'll be using that for all future projects instead of Centos.
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