Re:What Is Wrong with Enterprise Linux
by MatthiasPortzel on Monday July 17, 2023 @03:00PM
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Oracle Linux, Red Hat, and Debian are all “fully open source”. What you mean is “not maintained by a corporation.”
Re:What Is Wrong with Enterprise Linux
by marcosdumay on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:33PM
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Well, RHEL is now only "fully open source" with quotes, and won't allow code redistribution anymore.
Re:What Is Wrong with Enterprise Linux
by tosihakkeri on Monday July 17, 2023 @03:49PM
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> I think we need a fully open source alternative to RHEL not bound to any company
I believe the problem is not that there wouldn’t be open source alternatives but that that’s not what enterprise wants. Enterprise wants a company behind the distribution.
But arguably, there's also a pretty large world that wants enterprise type of solutions (for some use cases) without being actual enterprises.
Or am I the only one?
Of course, think about the relationship between Ubuntu and Debian. The idea is the upstream would be a fully open-source project that vendors build off of downstream. This way we can prevent vendors from subjugating a distribution like with Red Hat and CentOS and if a vendor pulls out of the market or goes out of business it doesn't take down the ecosystem with it.
I think we need a fully open source alternative to RHEL not bound to any company. Something akin to the Debian project that can serve as an upstream reference distro and repository.