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It is a tribute to name the scion of CentOS after one of the (deceased) founders, Rocky McGaugh.

If I might suggest a subtle variation on the name and branding, it would be this:

RockOS: It Rocks.

A hard look at Springdale Linux is due, similar to the White Box Linux assimilation into CentOS.

Oracle also needs to get the converter script updated for CentOS 8, preferably in a manner that switches update streams fluidly.

https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/

The ship is sinking, get in the life boats.

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From that page:

""" Q: Wait, doesn't Oracle Linux cost money?

A: Oracle Linux support costs money. If you just want the software, it's 100% free. [...] Yes, we know that this is Oracle, but it's actually free. Seriously.

[...]

Q: Why are you doing this?

A: This is not some gimmick to get you running Oracle Linux so that you buy support from us. [...] """

Oracle started up the photocopier on rhel because Red Hat bought jBoss.

Larry really wanted to punish Red Hat, and he did.

Red Hat people are still hypersensitive on the subject, believe me.

The only people who hate JBoss more than Ellison are the WebSphere sales team.

Wow, I’ve never thought of the people that have to go to work every day and try to convince people to use Websphere. What a soul crushing job that must be..

It's almost as soul-crushing to have to support a Websphere deployment. I've been trying to get our DevOps team to migrate off of RHEL 5 for 6 years, but they have to do upgrades to Websphere first, as well as the 3rd party modules that aren't supported under RHEL 7 (wth). Sometimes I think of becoming a lumberjack.

Leaping from tree to tree?

I think they also liked that the abbreviation could be RKEL, which is delightfully close to RHEL.

Oracle Linux is interesting... But I'm not sure whether I can trust Oracle.

After they killed OpenSolaris... never ever again.

That page claims the script works on CentOS 8, is that incorrect?

That’s “Deceased”.

Thanks, fixed.

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