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

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 9:21 AM Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yes, and when it comes to our kmod packages, what matters is the kABI
compatibility. Of the listed distros, we have confirmed that the kmods
work under Springdale-8. This is expected as their kernel maintains
the kABI compatibility with RHEL.

Akemi