liamnal

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by liamnal 1y ago
Greg is not the founder of CentOS and people need to stop believing his lies. He's said this lie so much that even he believes it.
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by liamnal 3y ago
I know reading is hard, but the Rocky Linux project and SUSE have not teamed up. That is an entirely CIQ endeavor. The project's blog post from some time ago also explains the two avenues they're going down for their clone.
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by liamnal 3y ago
I think you misread the post. He's clearly saying that he doesn't understand how the conclusion was drawn that there was anything shady going on. Willing to bet that the RESF builds rocky linux and CIQ does all the "shady&quo
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by liamnal 4y ago
>And the board doesn't keep people out. If you read the bylaws and charter, you would know that it is all contributing members of the projects that will vote for the board members Good to know, I forgot how voting works. I hope they
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by liamnal 4y ago
>For example, see the commit log to the early set of Rocky Linux devtools And that's literally it. After that... Nothing. Not surprising. >"All he does is talk" is unfairly dismissive. Funny because he's the only o
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by liamnal 4y ago
He does not develop it whatsoever. Really all he does is talk, so basically zero development value. He certainly likes to take credit though for all the work all of rocky's volunteers do.
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by liamnal 4y ago
He (gmk) didn't start it, but he certainly provided support/funding to it.
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by liamnal 4y ago
It's just like with any distribution, each have their own philosophies and how they want to tackle something. Oracle Linux is still around for example, but we don't talk about them too often. Rocky seems to have mostly volunteers.
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by liamnal 4y ago
Rocky made it clear they have a new build system which lead to their delay. I think it's called peridot. I would imagine that it's not easy to start fresh in two places at once. Alma has an advantage with a process from CloudLinux
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by liamnal 6y ago
There's a difference between a community backed effort vs a CEO of a small company that wants to throw $1M at something. Considering a community would do it for free, I'm under the impression that the CEO just wants to make money.