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With the latest changes at Red Hat another wave pushed through the world of Open Source. Finally, the dust has settled a bit. In this article, I want to take a look at these changes, discuss if Red Hat is evil and how we might continue from here.
Red Hat vs the open source community is the the subject of my Weekend Edition interview show with my guest Greg Kurtzer from Rocky Linux and a second bonus interview with benny Vasquez from the AlmaLinux OS Foundation. #RHEL#RedHat#RockyLinux#AlmaLinux#HashtagTrending
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Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it 🥊
Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as @geerlingguy, so we invited him on the show to discuss 💬
So if CIQ is working with SUSE on a new Enterprise Linux, what does that mean for #rockylinux long term? Will Rocky merge with this new venture somewhere down the line? Doesn't make sense for them to duplicate their efforts and compete with themselves.
@passthejoe yeah, except #debian isn’t behind a wall. i like having the choice of picking between a more vanilla debian experience or seeing what dippings canonical is providing these days with #ubuntu. and it’s really easy to do so, it’s just a swap between isos with no worry.
honestly, i hope #rockylinux takes off as its own thing. they have the power to do so and i feel like they could lead in the industry.
Out of curiosity, have people already found out the actual reason for the #RedHat source code strategy change. It probably isn't Alma or Oracle. So is it the #NASA - #RockyLinux deal, then? That was suggested in #LinuxUnplugged episode 517.
@vpv maybe, but one department getting 3 (THREE) Rocky Linux Advanced Subscriptions past procurement is hardly a #NASA + #RockyLinux deal... nor does it mean they are going to space. But they will keep saying that :eyeroll:
Speaking of Debian: don't misunderstand, Debian is one of the greatest Linux distributions ever! So is the community. But if you are used to everything working out-of-the-box for such a long time, and you have a good dozen computers to look after, then the hours of setting up basic functions after the fact can be very tedious.
After the Red Hat disaster and an excursion into the world of Debian - with which I somehow can't quite make friends (now I remember why I left Debian back then) - I'm giving openSUSE Tumbleweed a chance
Another fairly long post, this time on the early history of RHEL clones. People look at pre-Red Hat CentOS with rose-colored glasses, but the reality was a lot different.
Updates, pre-Red Hat CentOS, took weeks or months. CentOS was at one point at the mercy of an AWOL project lead.
Copying RHEL was difficult and clones were very little threat in environments where updates and reliability were mandatory.