> On 3. Feb 2020, at 21:11, David Sommerseth <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> And Oracle Linux is essentially a fork of CentOS, so it's even one step
> further down on the "downstream ladder".
> 
>   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.