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Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge

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Re: Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge

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Post by zxspectrum1982 »

polski-g wrote: post #19
pipo234 wrote: post #2

Would it be possible to: 1. create a free dev account 2. get the sources 3. merge changes into rocky repo 4. have the account terminated by the Hat 5. goto 1? Subversive, but mostly in compliance with GPL and Red Hat EULA... Ish. Kinda. But I probably made an error here. Who can point it out?

How does RedHat know said user is the one who distributed the changes? If the changes are given to Team Rocky on CD via USPS, there would be know way to know which RedHat user is the one giving changes to Rocky.

Red Hat wouldn't even care to identify the user: Rocky Linux, the Rocky Enterprise Linux Foundation, CIQ, etc would be brought to trial for accepting those sources.

Re: Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge

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Post by reacharavindh »

redeeman wrote: post #7
reacharavindh wrote: post #3

Honestly, I’m tired of this. We were going to use Rockylinux as a base for the new version of our research cluster at a University used by researchers from all over the world. We are a tightly funded shop with money allocated as parts of research grants. We were running off of CentOS because a few tools that researchers use were built “for” RHEL by the commercial vendors. Since Redhat now considers users of CentOS “f…

> We are not brave enough to run FreeIPA on Debian are these redhat projects really so crappy that it is something to be scared about to attempt to simply run them on another linux distribution?

Not that freeIPA is scrappy. on the contrary, it has been very good. Properly documented, and does the job well. The issue is finding another alternative for it as cohesive as freeipa in the Debian ecosyystem. FreeIPA is tightly integrated into RH ecosystem that it is prone to trouble when introducing changes to the environment it runs at. Can I make it run on Debian - Sure? But, will I trust such a setup for the critical element of our stack? NO.
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