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Potentially this means that Fedora and CentOS stream do not get timely updates implemented in RHEL.
Canonical must be throwing a party, and I bet SUSE is not hating it either
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Pure Debian is the way.
Debian has always had a primary focus on being open source and adhering to good open source principles. It’s a rare trait in the modern Linux ecosystem sadly, with so many corporate distros just trying to make a buck. Arch seems pretty good about open principles as well. I’m always going to stick to community-powered distros over ones backed by corporations and I suggest everyone who cares about FOSS do the same.
This is especially painful since it means you can’t easily use any RHEL downstream distros like Alma or Rocky for testing or build servers for RHEL anymore. I suspect this will lead to even worse third party software support to complement RHEL’s tiny selection of available packages.
TLDW?
What is gonna happen to Fedora?
What are they thinking?
fedora will be fine as it is the upstream provider of rpm build files
fedora -> centos stream -> RHEL
Rocky Linux and Oracle Linux that take the RHEL sources without contributing back are having their src rpm access cut.
As I understand the situation Red Hat will just release the sources on centos.org. Much fuss about a domain change. They’ll still comply with the GPL. Nothing is going closed source.
Has anyone got a source on this? The video doesn’t have any more info linked…
We need to make “Arch Enterprise Linux”.
Check out opensuse tumbleweed. You might like it
Ya, I think I’m gonna try it on a second system because it really appeals to me, I use Arch (btw) on my main system and am very happy with it.
However, the open-source developer GloriousEggroll mentions that the developer subscription to RHEL is free. So, access to RHEL source code is still possible but inconvenient?
Just want to to note here the Developer subscription is completely free and still allows access to RHEL and its source code if you want exact package sources. CentOS stream basically serves as a RHEL upstream so I understand this change. It may seem confusing for some people.
— GloriousEggroll @gloriouseggroll@fosstodon.org (@GloriousEggroll) June 22, 2023
I remember people on reddit saying the IBM buyout “is no big deal” and IBM will maintain Redhat “in good faith”
