Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams
Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams
From now on, only CentOS Stream's source code is available to all
This seems like a golden opportunity for distros like Suse and Ubuntu, who offer enterprise support for their free product, to poach some RHEL customers.
I wish Ol' Debian would get the love it deserves, especially for enterprise where their "stability over the latest flashiest software" philosophy should really shine. People on the desktop side criticizing how slowly Debian packages update is generally responded with "well it's a server OS first and foremost, the Debian derivatives are more suited for desktop," so why does no one use Debian for servers? And as far as I know Debian has always prioritized stability and reliability above anything else, and have never pulled any sort of corporate antics even close to what Canonical and Red Hat have pulled.
I'm using it. Almost 200 servers at work. No problems whatsoever. I almost smile reading news like this, because it shows me I did the right thing betting on debian
I hope you can correct me here, but I don't believe Debian offers any commercial support. That's what people are paying for. It is kind of amazing to be able to call a reliable OS vendor when your hardware vendor is blaming the OS and you need a third party to get involved.
@AgreeableLandscape we use it on all of our cloud servers. I donât think we have any metal servers anymore.
There is Ubuntu Pro.
I literally just got Rocky installed on two servers. We were going to field test before migrating to a paid subscription. That sure as hell isnât happening now. If IBM cannot help but to bite the hand that fed it, then I have little confidence they arenât going to turn into another Oracle.
If IBM cannot help but to bite the hand that fed it
Which hand was feeding them and how are they biting it?
Idc about IBM but the saying makes little sense to me here. It's not like Ubuntu annoying Debian which at one point was their upstream. They find upstream up to fedora and beyond.
If anything, Distros like Alma and Rocky bite the hand that feeds them by offering paid support contracts. Nothing is illegal about that. But I think the saying fits the reverse better.
The hand feeding them is the cross-pollination of community clones to paid subscriptions. RedHat would have never grown as big as it has if it didnât have the backing of people who learned how to use it, and enterprises who built things to run on it. We use Rocky because it allows us to rapidly test ideas without having to deal with licensing issues. When we are ready to deploy, we use RHEL so we can leverage the paid support. I myself only learned RedHat systems because CentOS was free and had a vibrant community. They have killed off CentOS and are now playing games with community distros, removing that onramp for learners and potential paying customers.
Moving distros is an issue primarily due to the differences between them for configuration and compliance, but it is a cost that comes once. If they continue to squeeze customers, those who can move will.
Debian has always been Ubuntu's upstream and still is.
Yeah, I have witnessed a lot of outrages in the linux community in my time, but I'm not sure what the big deal is with this one. Can you not still get a free rhel account and download the source code anyways?
Suse here I come!
Wil this also have impact on Oracle Linux?
Yes
Between this and the Fedora team wanting to force telemetry on users, I'm starting to shy away from Red Hat.