RE: Viability of OL 9.x and OpenELA

I stay away from licensing debates at all costs; but is (RHEL) really that much less onerous than the other (OEL)? All being (reasonably) equal, I’d d do OEL everywhere, one release and patch cycle and one vendor you know.

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> On Behalf Of Doug Kushner Sent: Friday, August 16, 2024 5:43 PM
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Hi Jared,

Thanks for resurrecting this thread! We use a mix of RHEL and OL here, with OL primarily on Exadata and other servers hosting Oracle databases. I have confidence that Oracle will continue to produce a RHEL compatible OS that runs their RDBMS and other applications effectively.

My concern is for our few other servers that are running OL with non-Oracle workloads and whether OpenELA will be able to maintain a bug-for-bug compatible code base, particularly over major releases such as RHEL 10.

Regards,
Doug

On 8/12/2024 9:03 AM, Jared Still wrote: I was browsing Oracle-L and saw this has no replies.

Perhaps you could better explain your concerns.

For instance, what is meant by "future reverse-engineered versions of OL"

Jared Still
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 9:25 AM dougk5 <dougk5_at_cox.net<mailto:dougk5_at_cox.net>> wrote: We will soon need to upgrade and/or replace several servers currently running OL7.9 that are nearing EOL. My question is twofold:

1. Upgrade to OL 8.10 or to 9.x? In theory 9.x would have a longer supported live span, however...
2. What is the viability of OpenELA and future reverse-engineered versions of OL? Should I cut my losses and move from OL to RHEL 9 now?

Interested in your opinions on this matter.

Regards,
Doug

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