In case you missed the news, CIQ, SUSE and Oracle basically formed a pitchfork mob against RedHat yesterday
This looks like exactly what Red Hat wanted. Other distributions to use CentOS Stream and contribute to the open source community instead of just copying their work. Hardly a “pitchfork mob.”
I agree. Still fun nonetheless, seeing some of the biggest players banding together against a competitor.
It’s still an issue though for mainly science areas with large HPC clusters who need stable supported OS releases for extremely expensive specialty software. Looking at the pricing, Redhat now wants to take quite a large chunk in licensing fees out of science budgets.
Not really because Red Hat doesn’t do HPC stuff unless I’m mistaken. Alma leaned into that by basing on CentOS Stream, being ABI compatible with RHEL, and creating an HPC SIG. The exact things Red Hat was encouraging people to do. The whole point was to get these companies to get involved in the community instead of copy pasting. Despite all the bitching and moaning, it seems to be working.
I guess its still less than any Microsofr license a company would need to pay.
You know things have gone wrong when people are cheering on Oracle.
Finally Americans discovering Lizard based distros
I always hear opensuse is a really great distro with features and lot of gui accessible settings (starting services, and apps,etc) not available anywhere else, really good stability and the latest packages unlike any Debian based distro, but in the same time they say it’s not newbie friendly so am kinda not sure if i want to use it.
I would say there’s a lot that makes it a good choice for new users. Yast itself gives you a lot of admin tasks in a gui. You have btrfs with snapshots out the box. The installer allows you to install multiple de’s and enable propriety software. Obs let’s you find everything you need software wise. The biggest issue is knowing it’s all there.
I’m OOTL, what?
Basically RedHat changed their source code policy and have ostracized the open source community.
Not entirely, they have restricted access to the source code for paying customers, which is absolutely allowed by the license(s). Whether that’s understandable because they need money too, or unethical because it violates the principles of OSS is up to yourself to decide.
CentOS under the chair, lol. I still can’t believe the fiasco with CentOS 8.
