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Re:Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1 by viraptor on Sunday June 20, 2021 @08:55AM (#27569492)
> 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?

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Re:Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1 by nix23 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:18AM (#27569654)
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

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Re:Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1 by viraptor on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:25AM (#27569730)
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".
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Re:Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1 by nix23 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:41AM (#27569854)
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.

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