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I know that many of you folks use Linux of one form or another. I don't know if anyone uses Centos. Based in comments here I get the impression that most of you use Ubuntu. I use Centos for, well, everything.
Unfortunately, Centos seems to be going down the road of the less reliable after the end of this year by changing from its current form of being an exact copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and becoming a sort of a final-stage beta test version of RHEL instead.
I've been looking for alternatives, as have a great many other folks who use Centos.
I set up a laptop yesterday with Oracle Linux 8. I used "real" epel with it since I've discovered that at least a few things are missing from Oracle's epel.
After I got everything installed and set up I had exactly the same thing that I would have had if I had installed Centos 8 on it.
I have a bash script that I use to install some rpms and delete others to turn a stock installation into my customized setup. And even that worked exactly as expected.
Oracle provides what they call the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, as well as the stock Redhat kernel and you get a choice of which one you want to use. I haven't done anything with the UEK to find out what benefit it provides for anything that I might actually want to be doing but it's something to play with I guess.
Just like Centos, Oracle Linux is free to download and free to update. The installer looks and works just like the Centos installer. It doesn't phone home or demand registration or do anything nefarious at all.
The easiest way to get an ISO image that you can install from is here: http://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-isos.html
I don't yet know if I'm going to stick with Oracle for my future projects but in this case I got exactly what I expected and wanted out of it so I certainly can't complain about the result.
However, it seems to work as expected and Oracle even provides a handy script to convert an existing Centos installation to Oracle.
Unfortunately, Centos seems to be going down the road of the less reliable after the end of this year by changing from its current form of being an exact copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and becoming a sort of a final-stage beta test version of RHEL instead.
I've been looking for alternatives, as have a great many other folks who use Centos.
I set up a laptop yesterday with Oracle Linux 8. I used "real" epel with it since I've discovered that at least a few things are missing from Oracle's epel.
After I got everything installed and set up I had exactly the same thing that I would have had if I had installed Centos 8 on it.
I have a bash script that I use to install some rpms and delete others to turn a stock installation into my customized setup. And even that worked exactly as expected.
Oracle provides what they call the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, as well as the stock Redhat kernel and you get a choice of which one you want to use. I haven't done anything with the UEK to find out what benefit it provides for anything that I might actually want to be doing but it's something to play with I guess.
Just like Centos, Oracle Linux is free to download and free to update. The installer looks and works just like the Centos installer. It doesn't phone home or demand registration or do anything nefarious at all.
The easiest way to get an ISO image that you can install from is here: http://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-isos.html
I don't yet know if I'm going to stick with Oracle for my future projects but in this case I got exactly what I expected and wanted out of it so I certainly can't complain about the result.
However, it seems to work as expected and Oracle even provides a handy script to convert an existing Centos installation to Oracle.
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