Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production environments

Re:Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production envir... by pjmlp on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:32PM (#25852281)

That just shows a lack of knowledge of the quantinty of commercial OSes available out there.

Were are the volunteers for Sony and Nintendo console OSes, Android, ChromeOS, Fuchsia, IBM i, IBM z/OS, INTEGRITY, QNX,Unisys ClearPath, Solaris, HP-UX, Aix, vxWorks.....?

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Re:Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production envir... by m4rtink on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:55PM (#25855200)

Both PS Vita and Nintendo Switch have miles long credits listing all the licenses (mostly BSD) and authors of the many OSS software bits they use.

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Re:Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production envir... by pjmlp on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:39AM (#25855837)

Indeed and almost zero contributions to upstream.

Those listings are required by the license.

Also they aren't Linux or BSD derivatives, rather their own OSes.

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Re:Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production envir... by m4rtink on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:06PM (#25861949)

Yep, exactly - IIRC Sony did some code drops to FreeBSD long ago improving SMP performance but that was preatty much it.

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