centos2ol
Script and documentation to switch CentOS/Rocky Linux to Oracle Linux (by oracle)
rocky-tools
By rocky-linux
| centos2ol | rocky-tools | |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | 19 | |
| 337 | 381 | |
| 1.5% | 0.8% | |
| 2.5 | 4.9 | |
| almost 1 year ago | 3 months ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| Universal Permissive License v1.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
centos2ol
Posts with mentions or reviews of centos2ol.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-31.
- Mixed feelings about Oracle Linux
- What Distro did you use to replace Centos?
- CentOS 8 is gone and EL8 confusion. What's happening actually?
- Alma or Rocky Linux and why?
- CentOS alternatives?
- CentOS Server Alternative
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Next year, IBM's Red Hat plans to cut back on hiring senior engineers in an effort aimed largely at controlling costs.
Oracle has a conversion script/tool to switch a CentOS machine to Oracle Linux. In the FAQ they're at least self-aware of their reputation:
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Linux server flavors?
turn CentOS 8 into Oracle Linux 8: https://github.com/oracle/centos2ol
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Rocky Linux release attracts 80,000 downloads as ex-CentOS users mull choices
But reading the docs and the claims that the site has https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/ it's a real option for mission-critical/production systems.
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If Redhat used by the datacenter. Why do we learn another distro?
Actually Oracle Linux already fills that gap as a RHEL clone. Don't kill me, I know Oracle Linux is literally the only free product at that company. It even says so on their website:
rocky-tools
Posts with mentions or reviews of rocky-tools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-08.
- Migrate to CentOS 9 Stream from Rocky 9
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Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution
Rocky Linux has migration scripts available at https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate...
An easy shortcut though, in case you have to hand type it out somewhere, is https://rockylinux.org/migrate2rocky.sh
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Rocky Linux conersion script
We have a conversion script for 9 here.
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CentOS-8 to Rocky Linux-8
https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/migrate2rocky/ https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate2rocky
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What Distro did you use to replace Centos?
I used Rocky Linux to migrate the CentOS 8 Servers, the migration was just done using the migrate2rocky.sh script from https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate2rocky.
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Best Solution - Self Hosted - Migrating from Hostgator
You can also convert an Oracle Cloud to Alma or Rocky then install ApisCP. If you do, append -s has_low_memory=1 to the installer.
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Finding the proper webpanel
If going with Oracle Linux it's necessary to convert to Alma or Rocky before installing the 30-day trial. This also doubles as a great hack for a free 1 GB DNS-only server.
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Stuck Trying to Migrate from CentOS Linux to Rocky Linux after EOL?
I run the migration script today and I encountered this pellicular error:
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Why did Greg Kurtzer leave the CentOS project in the first place?
migrate2rocky.sh is a 1200 line bash script that appears to call dnf dozens of times. Granted, at the time he didn't know exactly what the migration path was going to look like, so call this one a broken promise rather than a false statement.
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I created a chart showing how long some of the still active independent Linux distros have been around
It's covered in Rocky's docs and the migrate2rocky README, relevant excerpt here:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing centos2ol and rocky-tools you can also consider the following projects:
centos-stream
open-vm-tools - Official repository of VMware open-vm-tools project
almalinux.org - almalinux.org official web site sources.
almalinux-deploy - EL to AlmaLinux migration tool.
infrastructure - The infrastructure monorepo for the Rocky Linux project. This project will be archived/deprecated in the future.
AppImageKit - Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat
docker-images - Official source of container configurations, images, and examples for Oracle products and projects
nixos-infect - [GPLv3+] install nixos over the existing OS in a DigitalOcean droplet (and others with minor modifications)
bento - Packer templates for building minimal Vagrant baseboxes for multiple platforms
apiscp-webapp-discourse - Discourse Web App
centos2ol vs centos-stream
rocky-tools vs open-vm-tools
centos2ol vs almalinux.org
rocky-tools vs almalinux-deploy
centos2ol vs infrastructure
rocky-tools vs AppImageKit
centos2ol vs docker-images
rocky-tools vs nixos-infect
centos2ol vs bento
rocky-tools vs infrastructure
centos2ol vs almalinux-deploy
rocky-tools vs apiscp-webapp-discourse