Oracle Linux 7 is guaranteed binary compatible with RHEL/CentOS 7, although there is only (a little over) a year of support left on the whole platform.
Scientific Linux was also on v7, but I thought there was some kind of ongoing apoptosis with this repackaged distro.
Neither Alma nor Rocky implemented v7. I thought that CentOS left that version untouched.
I wonder if the Oracle UEK has addressed these problems. If so, it would be a reason to run Oracle's kernel on CentOS, supported or not.
For those poeple who can tolerate neither these bugs nor Oracle's kernel, another option is ElRepo's "Kernel of Last Resort."
"We stress that we consider such kernels as a last resort..."
UEK can run into the same issue. It is just a picked upstream kernel with a bunch of stuff that Oracle cares about dropped on top of it, and managed by a much smaller team.
Oracle Linux 7 is guaranteed binary compatible with RHEL/CentOS 7, although there is only (a little over) a year of support left on the whole platform.
Scientific Linux was also on v7, but I thought there was some kind of ongoing apoptosis with this repackaged distro.
Neither Alma nor Rocky implemented v7. I thought that CentOS left that version untouched.
I wonder if the Oracle UEK has addressed these problems. If so, it would be a reason to run Oracle's kernel on CentOS, supported or not.
For those poeple who can tolerate neither these bugs nor Oracle's kernel, another option is ElRepo's "Kernel of Last Resort."
"We stress that we consider such kernels as a last resort..."
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml