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- | This article should be considered an opinionated editorial rather than any type of unbiased review. As a potential Red Hat refugee, it'll give you a lot of useful info. However, It's not supposed to be an impartial product review of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The author' | + | This article should be considered an opinionated editorial rather than any type of unbiased review. As a potential Red Hat refugee, it'll give you a lot of useful info. However, It's not supposed to be an impartial product review of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The author' |
==== Moving from Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to CentOS or Oracle Enterprise Linux ==== | ==== Moving from Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to CentOS or Oracle Enterprise Linux ==== | ||
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- Patches and even trivial packages aren't available unless your subscription is up to date. If not, you have a partially broken system because you can't install even simple things like timezone updates or small unix CLI tools. | - Patches and even trivial packages aren't available unless your subscription is up to date. If not, you have a partially broken system because you can't install even simple things like timezone updates or small unix CLI tools. | ||
- Red Hat sales people have been known to act in ways customers can feel is too aggressive. | - Red Hat sales people have been known to act in ways customers can feel is too aggressive. | ||
- | - Some consider Red Hat training practices to be overly | + | - Some consider Red Hat training practices to be overly |
- Red Hat has been bought by IBM who some suspect to have begun the process of strip mining Red Hat intellectual property and moving their staffing offshore. Many feel quality is dropping. For others, IBM's lack of profitability and recent 22-quarter losing streak also has shaken faith in the company in some opinions. | - Red Hat has been bought by IBM who some suspect to have begun the process of strip mining Red Hat intellectual property and moving their staffing offshore. Many feel quality is dropping. For others, IBM's lack of profitability and recent 22-quarter losing streak also has shaken faith in the company in some opinions. | ||
- Much criticism has been directed at Red Hat for making poor technical choices. Example: they eschewed XFS and badmouthed XFS for years refusing to support it, then started using it as the **default** in RHEL7 enigmatically. Now they applaud it. | - Much criticism has been directed at Red Hat for making poor technical choices. Example: they eschewed XFS and badmouthed XFS for years refusing to support it, then started using it as the **default** in RHEL7 enigmatically. Now they applaud it. |
moving_from_rhel_to_centos_or_oracle_linux.txt · Last modified: 2020/06/03 16:55 by sgriggs