Migrating from CentOS to Oracle Linux
The first question is why? Why are we talking about moving from CentOS to Oracle Linux?
Before we explain this, let’s chat a little bit about the surprise that IBM Red Hat dropped on the Linux community on December 8, 2020. CentOS as we know it is dead! It is > /
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On December 8th, 2020, CentOS (which is controlled by IBM Red Hat) announced the news: “CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end of 2021.” The 2021 date is eight years earlier than planned, with 2029 being the original published date for the end of development on the CentOS 8 distribution. This means if you have CentOS 8 and you want to continue using a stable and predictable release, then you need to make a change.
The CentOS team is “shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release.” Remember Fedora, where new...