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[–] boeman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here I am regretting my decision to move from CentOS to rocky on my servers

[–] gamey@feddit.rocks 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started with Ubuntu servers and moved on to Debian, never used anything else much because it always worked great but Redhat clones are supposed to be really nice too and I love Fedora on desktop! What's the problem with your Rocky server?

[–] boeman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just the drama that IBM is causing in the redhat world. It makes me nervous.

[–] gamey@feddit.rocks 1 points 1 year ago

Don't worry too much about that, it sucks but won't kill Rocky, Alma or Oracle because Redhat doesn't have the rights to do that, they can just make maintanace of those a lot harder! ;)