Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by bonzini on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @08:21AM
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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
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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
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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.
Their incentives favour creating Red-Hat-specific documentation, and this then reduces their users' incentive to improve upstream documentation.