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The branding here I think is a big issue. The name "Rocky Linux" sounds too homebrew and unprofessional. CentOS sounds Enterprise-ish. I find it hard to believe any corporate client would take it seriously.
Ignore the peanut gallery, it is a fine name.
Great, another Linux distro... I am trying to use something , but I just can't. Spending my time fixing problems instead of doing actual work is fun, for a while. Every damn time I start this one laptop with Linux, trying to get away from Windows 10, there's something to fix. Oh, the undervolt is not being applied, time to build the whole thing again. Oh, restart causes it to wank the hard drive indefinitely for some…
I doubt how successful this will turn out to be because of the following reasons: - The old CentOS had a brand value, which Rocky Linux has to earn back all over again. - The old Red Hat was nice to CentOS or at least wasn't particularly hostile. That does not mean IBM will be nice too. - It may be too short a notice for current CentOS users to wait for Rocky Linux to come through. They may already move away to other…
CentOS users by nature want to stay on their current systems as long as possible. Many would have still been on CentOS 7. I doubt any will have moved away from CentOS already.
Great, another Linux distro... I am trying to use something , but I just can't. Spending my time fixing problems instead of doing actual work is fun, for a while. Every damn time I start this one laptop with Linux, trying to get away from Windows 10, there's something to fix. Oh, the undervolt is not being applied, time to build the whole thing again. Oh, restart causes it to wank the hard drive indefinitely for some…
You don't like my design choices? I'll leave the project and make my own. You end up with lots of talented people reinventing the same thing forever.
Great, another Linux distro... I am trying to use something , but I just can't. Spending my time fixing problems instead of doing actual work is fun, for a while. Every damn time I start this one laptop with Linux, trying to get away from Windows 10, there's something to fix. Oh, the undervolt is not being applied, time to build the whole thing again. Oh, restart causes it to wank the hard drive indefinitely for some…
This fills a specific need for "enterprise" customers, specifically, being very slow and very stable. It's not supposed to be a consumer OS for doing normal desktop activities on, although there's nothing stopping you from using it as such.
This isn't yet another slightly tweaked fork of Ubuntu or Arch Linux or some such, where maybe that attitude is more deserved.
Great, another Linux distro... I am trying to use something , but I just can't. Spending my time fixing problems instead of doing actual work is fun, for a while. Every damn time I start this one laptop with Linux, trying to get away from Windows 10, there's something to fix. Oh, the undervolt is not being applied, time to build the whole thing again. Oh, restart causes it to wank the hard drive indefinitely for some…
Different users, different needs. Ubuntu and Archlinux definitely appeal to different people, for example.
One person might also use different distros depending on the intended use of a particular machine.
The branding here I think is a big issue. The name "Rocky Linux" sounds too homebrew and unprofessional. CentOS sounds Enterprise-ish. I find it hard to believe any corporate client would take it seriously.
Right, just how like corporations would never take a company called 'Google' seriously. Ignore the peanut gallery, it is a fine name.
Great, another Linux distro... I am trying to use something , but I just can't. Spending my time fixing problems instead of doing actual work is fun, for a while. Every damn time I start this one laptop with Linux, trying to get away from Windows 10, there's something to fix. Oh, the undervolt is not being applied, time to build the whole thing again. Oh, restart causes it to wank the hard drive indefinitely for some…
The branding here I think is a big issue. The name "Rocky Linux" sounds too homebrew and unprofessional. CentOS sounds Enterprise-ish. I find it hard to believe any corporate client would take it seriously.
That seems a pretty specious argument for not using a product.
Especially since the name was used to honor one of the founders of CentoS who is now dead.
That seems like a pretty good reason for a name to me.
What's more, I'd be more concerned about functionality than a name. But that's just me.