@rockylinux I regret having picked Rocky over CentOS or Ubuntu.
Only one sided communication, outdated packages.
Also, unfollowed again, since all you're posting here is useless propaganda
@darq the socials are run by just a couple people, if you actually want to interact with the 10,000 person community, it's at https://chat.rockylinux.org.
As far as outdated packages, the entire point of Enterprise Linux is stability. For the most part, the packaged software receives only bug / security fixes.
@fosslife
I still don't understand from where the Code of #openela is coming from and how it's beeing further developed. Is it coming from Enterprise Linux? Is it developed on their own?
What happens when #RedHat releases #EL10? @openela
CIQ (parent of Rocky Linux), Oracle & SUSE announces the Open Enterprise Linux Association as a trade group that aims to provide RHEL compatible source code that can be implemented in downstream distributions.
It's also interesting to note that #OpenELA intends to open an X account but no presence on the #fediverse. Hopefully @rockylinux can nudge them to fosstodon.org or floss.social?
The RESF is a Platinum sponsor of Flock to Fedora in Cork, Ireland in August. https://flocktofedora.org/
That which supports upstream Enterprise Linux also benefits projects like Rocky Linux, of course. Our contributors have known this since the beginning. This is what an open source "freeloader" looks like.
"Today SUSE [...] announced it is forking publicly available Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and will develop and maintain a RHEL-compatible distribution available to all without restrictions."
If someone more familiar with the #EnterpriseLinux space could help me out, #Suse’s recent decision to fund a RHEL fork has me a bit confused.
I know Suse has their own distro, #SLE, and that there are comparative strengths and weaknesses between SLE and RHEL, but is RHEL so much of a standard in this space that Suse would rather spend money maintaining a RHEL fork than, for example, on community outreach to maybe make a downstream fork of SLE the new community standard? I don’t get it.
@spaceraser Having worked before at multiple companies that built stuff on top of RHEL/CentOS 7, I can tell you they really don't wanna put in the effort to migrate to anything else. If they could get security patches for RHEL 7 forever they wouldn't even upgrade RHEL 8.
With that in mind, they're MUCH more likely to migrate to something that is RHEL compatible, so SUSE is trying to bring in more customers by maintaining both SLE and a RHEL compatible offering.
@passthejoe@rockylinux@resf But - how? Glad to hear but I’d love to hear how this is done with Red Hat limiting access to the #RHEL sources. Is an customer account used?