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> On 3. Feb 2020, at 21:11, David Sommerseth <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> On 01/02/2020 17:12, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> *No one* calls it "Oracle 8". It's still RHEL 8. Oracle now owns and
>> can still use the Red Hat trademarks.
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> No, not at all. It was IBM who acquired Red Hat; but IBM has so far kept Red
> Hat as a separate company/brand with its own organization.
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> And Oracle Linux is essentially a fork of CentOS, so it's even one step
> further down on the "downstream ladder".
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> Fedora -> RHEL -> CentOS/SL -> Oracle Linux
Sigh, we had this meme before, and by repeating it like a mantra it won't become less false.
If Oracle Linux was a CentOS fork, how could they possibly outperform CentOS in getting stuff out by *months*?
And that's not the only respect in which OL compares quite favourably. Just look for updateinfo.xml in repo metadata, or the SRPMs for the latest updates.
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