Monthly Archives: December 2020

Is Debian a viable alternative to CentOS8, for me yes

Posted on December 28, 2020 by mark

Since the RedHat announcement that CentOS8 ‘stable’ is becoming a test system on centOS8 ‘stream’ rather than being provided as a stable system anymore many people are looking for alternative operating systems. I have already covered in the previous post … Continue reading →

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The Oracle conversion script to convert CentOS to Oracle Linux, and an alternative

Posted on December 26, 2020 by mark

As mentioned in my previous post there is a script supplied to convert CentOS systems to Oracle Linux, available at https://github.com/oracle/centos2ol. As mentioned in that post it is not safe to use at the currect time. At the end of … Continue reading →

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Is Oracle Linux a viable alternative to CentOS

Posted on December 25, 2020 by mark

By now you are all aware of the RedHat/IBM decision to destroy CentOS as a viable stable platform. Oracle has been suggested on many Forums as an alternative. While some responses on forums indicate a belief that Oracle Linux is … Continue reading →

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