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Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes (www.redhat.com)

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More about Red Hat's decision to make CentOS Stream the primary repository for RHEL sources.

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[–] staticlifetime@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This is basically as hard as Red Hat can go with the sources before it starts to violate the GPL (arguably it might already), and if Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux know how to survive, then I don't see much reason in moving to Debian or FreeBSD. I have also been using RHEL in my home lab, and although subscription renewal can be a bit annoying, it's not bad.

If I was really forced to move to another enterprise-grade Linux, it wouldn't be Debian, it'd be openSUSE/SUSE.

[–] Nucelar@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I guess. Any thoughts on nixos ? The reproducible OS is a very attractive feature but I do not see how containers do not already cover this issue....

[–] r0bi@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

openSUSE is a consideration for me as well. I used SuSE a lot in the 7.x days when it was convenient to get all packages on a DVD instead of dealing with downloading over dial up. Part of my reaction is to be separate from a corporate for-profit entity though. I hope Rocky/Alma survive as it would make my life easier (personal VPS, home server and offsite backup at my parents all run Rocky)

I just generally hate dealing with any kind of licensing renewals as I've had to do that enough at $DAYJOB, I don't exactly want to bring it home with me.