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Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL by mjw1007 on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @07:26AM (#36679443)
Well, part of the reason Linux documentation often isn't very good is that Red Hat doesn't treat documentation work as something that should be submitted upstream.

Their incentives favour creating Red-Hat-specific documentation, and this then reduces their users' incentive to improve upstream documentation.

Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL by bonzini on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @08:21AM (#36679962)
There is a difference between package documentation and system documentation. Red Hat contributes package documentation upstream, but system documentation is by its nature distro-dependent.

Red Hat has contributed work that made distros more homogeneous (cough systemd cough) and excellent package documentation for that work; but also got flak for that...

Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL by geerlingguy on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:34AM (#36680734)
They also have soooo many good articles (which are helpful not just to RHEL) behind a subscription wall. If you do a lot of work in the rpm ecosystem, they're like the Experts Exchange of Google search, with how many times you see an exact bug report, then you get to the page with a tease of your exact answer, but it fades into the login required bit.
Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL by chasil on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:16AM (#36681299)
If you download the Red Hat developer edition and run a "yum update" once every couple of months, then you will get access.

The developer edition is now more inconvenient, as you have to reapply once a year.

Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL by bonzini on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:30AM (#36681487)
And it used to be open, until Oracle started closing their tickets for paid support with essentially cut-and-paste of access.redhat.com. That's why you can't have nice things.