[elrepo] El-Repo's stand on upcoming replacement distros for Centos8

Alan Bartlett ajb at elrepo.org
Sun Feb 7 12:04:48 EST 2021


On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 at 16:34, David Ranch <elrepo at trinnet.net> wrote:
>
> Hello El Repo team,
>
> I was curious if there is a stance on some of the upcoming Centos 8+ replacements?  Should El-Repo work with ABI compatibility for ALL of them?  None of them?  Too early to tell?
>
>    - AlmaLInux ( upcoming free version of ClouxOS) - Beta is out
>    - Rocky - a release candidate expected on March 31
>    - SpringDale (similar to Scientific Linux)
>    - Oracle Linux
>    - There are others too
>
> --David
>
Hi David,

It's too early to tell.

Please remember we provide packages for RHEL, so if the above OS are
good "lookalikes" or clones of RHEL8, then our products would also be
appropriate for end users of those systems.

Alan.


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