SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL

Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL by pas on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:58AM (#36681061)

Big big big enterprises outsource IT to big big enterprise vendors, and they benefit a lot from standardizing on RHEL, because they employ people, who benefit a lot from documentation and tutorials and so on.

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Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL by grey_earthling on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @06:28PM (#36702541)

I would have thought that all the documentation and tutorials would apply equally to CentOS Stream — as I understand it, the only real difference is the schedule for releasing minor patches and bugfixes.

Is it the case that RHEL provides vastly better, more detailed changelogs for minor/bugfix updates (even to the public without an RHEL subscription) and that's what makes so much difference that an exactly-compatible rebuild of RHEL is useful but CentOS Stream isn't?

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Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL by pas on Thursday July 13, 2023 @08:47AM (#36708311)

Bigbigbig enterprises have bigbig compliance departments, and audits, and so on.

RHEL is entrenched in that world, perfect for IBM (which also lives off those clients).

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