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