Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by ZeroSolstice on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @12:25PM
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Why would you be dependent upon CentOS(RHEL compat) if you are in those industries? If you need certification and LTS then pay for it by purchasing RHEL licenses.
It seems very silly for people to be getting upset now that a free OS hasn't taken their business considerations to heart. Unless of course you were going for the model of charging everyone enterprise rates for your devices/software/work/etc and pocketing what you would have to normally pay in enterprise licensing because its a "community" OS, which everyone is free to do, but these are the risks that come with that.
Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by pelasaco on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:20AM
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One scenario that I can imagine, is for development environment. People had CentOS as dev environment and deployed RHEL. Or ran CentOS guests on RHEL hosts (VM or Docker)
Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by ZeroSolstice on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @07:10PM
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Thats a good point. Looks like RedHat considered this and offer free company/professional developer RHEL images for non-production use[1]. In 2021 they allowed zero-cost licensing for individuals[2].
[1] https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/05/10/access-rhe... [2] https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-...
If you cannot figure out, then you are not working with Linux, despite 30y+ of experience.
Big Companies need certifications, maintenance, support and compatibility is necessary. Specially companies running linux in mainframe, or for instance, delivering embedded devices like storages or medical devices