[Cialug] CentOS upgrades

[Dan Ramaley]

Seconded.

Oracle is cheaper. (It just feels so wrong to type that sentence 
though.) But their updates always have a lag of a few weeks to a month 
or so behind RHEL. For most updates, no big deal, but for security 
updates that *is* kind of a big deal. And also, Oracle doesn't seem to 
know how to keep a repository online reliably. Back when i supported 
Oracle Linux i ended up standing up my own mirror of their repo (and 
scheduled it to sync nightly) so that i had something i could rely on 
during maintenance windows.

On 2022-01-27 16:53, Matt Millard wrote:
> If I’m going to not someone for support of Linux it’s going to be Red Hat over Oracle any day. I’ve used both Oracle Linux and RHEL in production and used both support systems.
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> From: Cialug <cialug-bounces at cialug.org> on behalf of Mike Hughes <mike at visionary.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Cialug] CentOS upgrades
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> I converted a couple CentOS boxes to RHEL and it went very smoothly:
> https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux/migration-process/convert2rhel-how-to-convert-from-centos-linux-to-red-hat-enterprise-linux
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> From: Cialug <cialug-bounces at cialug.org> on behalf of L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net>
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 4:16 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: [Cialug] CentOS upgrades
> 
> Watched a good presentation last week about Oracle Linux and how they
> track RH repos; the suggestion was that this makes it easier to switch
> from CentOS to a valid open source distro that has commercial support
> avaiable.
> 
> Any validation or problems from folks that have done a migration?
> 
>          Lee
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