"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.
Rocky Linux, a prominent community-driven open-source distribution of Enterprise Linux (EL), remains confident in its ability to continue as a bug-for-bug compatible and freely available alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), despite changes in accessibility.
[For immediate release][Reno, NV, June 22, 2023] – Rocky Linux, a prominent community-driven open-source distribution of Enterprise Linux (EL), remains confident in its ability to continue as a bug-for-bug compatible and freely available alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), despite changes in accessibility. https://rockylinux.org/news/2023-06-22-press-release/#enterpriselinux#rockylinux#opensource#linux
Remember that story recently about Project Zero finding three unpatched kernel vulnerabilities in CentOS 9? As of May 1st, all three are now fixed (never mind the fact that one of them was already fixed well before the story came out). CentOS 9 is currently the only Enterprise Linux distro with these fixes.