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Re: centOS 8
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David Sommerseth <[log in to unmask]>
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David Sommerseth <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:01:30 +0200
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On 16/10/2019 22:14, Yasha Karant wrote:
> As SL is "going away", and CERN/Fermilab on this list seemed to indicate 
> future RHEL major releases would be CentOS deployments, is that in fact 
> what is happening?  Or will there be RHEL licenses for CERN/Fermilab 
> general deployment?
> 
> What about Oracle EL?  

You do know that Oracle EL is based on CentOS source RPMs?  So why would
Oracle EL be better than CentOS in this case, which would also be an implicit
support of a company not being much open source friendly (just look at what
has happened with java/openjdk, openoffice.org/libreoffice, mysql/mariadb).


-- 
kind regards,

David Sommerseth

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