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Thoughts on RHEL going closed source ?

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I’m curious about what you think on how it will affect the Linux community and distros (especially RHEL based distros like Fedora or Rocky).

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fox@lemmy.fakecake.org
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I’m going to continue running Debian as I did since 2003 or so.

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GnomeComedy@beehaw.org
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I’m happy for you. Some of us have commercial software that needs a RHEL like distro to run.

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fox@lemmy.fakecake.org
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supposedly you pay for this software. might as well pay for RHEL too then.

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GnomeComedy@beehaw.org
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We are, but some orgs are more cash strapped than mine.

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fugepe@lemmy.ml
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With all the new updates happening around all the Linux peripherals, I wouldnt like to stay behind for the next 2/3 years on Debian

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taladar@sh.itjust.works
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Anything that is old on Debian is even older on RHEL so I don’t understand your comment.

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_HR_@lemmy.world
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Except not everything, as RHEL has selection of software updated to newer versions. Debian just keeps everything old.

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Catsrules@lemmy.ml
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What is happening?

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TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works
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You don’t have to use stable for the entire duration of debian 12, switch to testing after say about six months, I’m running testing right now (by accident, forgot I was tracking testing and not bookworm/bullseye) only found a tiny bug with libvirtd.

Debian is lovely os.

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sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one
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Someone has no idea how Debian works.

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CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
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Arch?

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