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SUSE plan on forking RHEL and make a RHEL compatible distro available for everyone(www.suse.com)

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PurpleGreen@lemmy.world
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Why rhel/cent os is such a big deal? Cant ppl just use Debian / Ubuntu / alpine?

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maynarkh@feddit.nl
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RHEL gets enterprise support from RedHat / IBM.

Point is, if you work for some big corp, when you buy something, you want proper warranties meaning people to blame if it breaks down. I have seen corps want to pay for stuff available free just so they can point at someone if there’s a problem. Ubuntu is mostly fine, Canonical does offer support, but “nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM”.

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qrtr@lemmy.ml
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The enterprise support also means security updates, which is a huge requirement for government contract work (not just US, anything military really). I’ve also seen requirements for use of DISA approved products. I think at the time RHEL and maybe SUSE were the only ones on the list - I’m a few years removed from having to care about this.

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ancientweasel@social.fossware.space
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Switching is not always trivial.

I have a huge build that only works on EL7. It will take months of focused effort to unfuck that build code.

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steph@lemmy.clueware.org
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EOL of version 7 is next year in June, you got a nice pile of work here!

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PurpleGreen@lemmy.world
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Thanks for the answers I learnt something new :)

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stuner@lemmy.world
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Professional applications (e.g. CAD,…) generally don’t support many distributions. In my field, RHEL and SLES are widely supported and a few tools also support Ubuntu.

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digdilem@feddit.uk
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We’ve got over two hundred Rocky/Centos vms. all of them ‘pets’ that would require manual migration of lots of very different services, many of them bespoke. That’s quite a lot of work.

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