Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

Re:Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by awill on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @03:20PM (#36423068)

There's a huge difference between Rocky/Alma, and Oracle. Oracle actually tries to steal RHEL business. They offer support, which I think is ludicrous when they don't even build the product.

Alma/Rocky aren't to my knowledge offering any support (and if they plan to, they shouldn't). Are customers cross-shopping RHEL with Alma? You either want support, and buy RHEL, or you don't, and you use something else (Alma/Rocky, or Debian/Ubuntu etc..)

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Re:Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by progmetaldev on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:04PM (#36424478)

Rocky does offer support, but your comment about Oracle still stands. I believe Rocky works with Red Hat.

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Re:Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by awill on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:15PM (#36424655)

Rocky can offer support on helping you install it. But they can't offer real support. They can't fix bugs or do any real work on RHEL beyond requesting that Red Hat accept a fix. If Red Hat declines, Rocky can't even ship their own fix.

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Re:Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by progmetaldev on Thursday June 22, 2023 @07:09PM (#36440476)

Doesn't Rocky offer their own repositories, where if they had an upstream fix that was important enough, they could just include it in their own repositories?

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Re:Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by yrro on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:28AM (#36478315)

They can't do so while claiming to be bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL.

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