> in the meantime the newest patch (let's say for OracleDB) is just compatible/certified for 8.2, but you sit for 6 month on a centos 8.1.
Is this a real scenario? Can you point to a product officially compatible with CentOS, with a patch released only for rhel 8.2 and ignoring CentOS 8.1?
Yes here an example:
>Minimum supported versions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2: 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64 or later
https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/2...
>product officially compatible with CentOS,
Ehh, that's the point of CentOS being the same as RHEL...bug for bug
If you pay for Oracle, why would you run on promises? I get that the lag is disappointing, but "compatible with RHEL" is not the same as "compatible with RHEL and distributions that claim compatibility with it".
Look i just said there where problems with that lag, and yes true, if you need a OracleDb you will use OracleLinux and probably OracleHardware (because free support for OracleLinux).
> but "compatible with RHEL" is not the same as "compatible with RHEL and distributions that claim compatibility with it".
That was the promise of CentOS 100% compatible with RHEL bug for bug.
Recompile src-files and exchange a branding is not really what i call "competition"
>I want successful Debian
Debian IS successful.
>But really, it doesn't look like you're in the market for it. Some solutions welcome slow releases
That's not what is said nor meant, if for example RHEL 8.2 was released it took CentOS sometimes up to 6 month to release their 8.2 counterpart, in the meantime the newest patch (let's say for OracleDB) is just compatible/certified for 8.2, but you sit for 6 month on a centos 8.1.
But maybe your not in the market of having the latest patch for 3rd party software.