Just their approach aren’t as good as Alma or CentOS as upstream. It’s just my personal opinion…
I just don’t like the CIQ narrative and Oracle that keep pushing Red Hat to corner…
Red Hat being dick because most of downstream being dick, especially CIQ/Rocky… they steal about 30% of Red Hat contract, while offer cheaper package (quite a lot cheaper, and they don’t even work on SIG like AlmaLinux Does), but using RHEL code, and just rebrand it as the best RHEL compatible, Rocky Linux.
OL is worst… Overprice Oracle DB, provide free OL, fork from Red Hat, and slap much higher cost until your company can’t pay… well at least OL is honest than CIQ…
People need to see from Red Hat perspective regarding their dick move on exercising their GPLv2, and the upstream code still in git.centos.org. It depends now on downstream for repackage it. So it’s still open source… and you can still have Rocky, Alma, OL, just you need to maintain the build pipeline…
And Rocky is broken on Old Thinkpad with 7 row keyboard. Alma, RHEL, and Fedora isn’t.
I still can’t find the cause, but end up using Fedora on most Thinkpad I have.
Other than that Is Ubuntu… It’s… simpler to use, but when you deploy to production or Enterprise env… mostly sucks when they push broken update, and we need to rollback, it’s not as simple as dnf history undo… it’s also personal opinion, YMMV.
I’m agree with this point of view… CIQ narrative have too much conflict of interest. In my place, most corp are happy with CentOS Stream being able to be the upstream test before landed on RHEL. At least now they don’t need to long to put on Fedora to be landed on 3 years cycle like old times…
Rocky and OL…
Just their approach aren’t as good as Alma or CentOS as upstream. It’s just my personal opinion…
I just don’t like the CIQ narrative and Oracle that keep pushing Red Hat to corner…
Red Hat being dick because most of downstream being dick, especially CIQ/Rocky… they steal about 30% of Red Hat contract, while offer cheaper package (quite a lot cheaper, and they don’t even work on SIG like AlmaLinux Does), but using RHEL code, and just rebrand it as the best RHEL compatible, Rocky Linux.
OL is worst… Overprice Oracle DB, provide free OL, fork from Red Hat, and slap much higher cost until your company can’t pay… well at least OL is honest than CIQ…
People need to see from Red Hat perspective regarding their dick move on exercising their GPLv2, and the upstream code still in git.centos.org. It depends now on downstream for repackage it. So it’s still open source… and you can still have Rocky, Alma, OL, just you need to maintain the build pipeline…
And Rocky is broken on Old Thinkpad with 7 row keyboard. Alma, RHEL, and Fedora isn’t.
I still can’t find the cause, but end up using Fedora on most Thinkpad I have.
Other than that Is Ubuntu… It’s… simpler to use, but when you deploy to production or Enterprise env… mostly sucks when they push broken update, and we need to rollback, it’s not as simple as dnf history undo… it’s also personal opinion, YMMV.
I’m agree with this point of view… CIQ narrative have too much conflict of interest. In my place, most corp are happy with CentOS Stream being able to be the upstream test before landed on RHEL. At least now they don’t need to long to put on Fedora to be landed on 3 years cycle like old times…