Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

Re:Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by wkat4242 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @03:11PM (#36422958)

I don't really agree. RHEL is nothing special. Important for Enterprise and thus free availability is handy for people having an interest in becoming a sysadmin to learn it. Dogfooding work stuff is the only reason I'd consider using it or its derivatives at home. But I don't care even about that and my stuff all runs BSD :P

But other distros are much better IMO.

There's good reasons that a totally free distro like Debian is forked so much. It's just a really solid base. Software doesn't need to have a business model to be great.

I'd be a lot sadder to see Debian disappear than RHEL and its derivatives.

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Re:Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by bonzini on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @03:33PM (#36423230)

There is no single criterion by which you can decide which distro is better.

All I know is anecdotes. RHEL 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 came out around the same time. Around May, upstream QEMU started getting bug reports from Canonical developers that you couldn't reset a virtual machine that had been created in 12.04 and migrated to 14.04 due to some firmware incompatibility.

In RHEL we had started testing cross-version migration 6 months in advance.

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