• ForbiddenRoot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    So if I understand this correctly they will hard fork RHEL. So it won’t be a clone going forward in the way Alma / Rocky currently are. The advantage for RHEL users in moving to this fork are that they get an enterprise distro that’s well-supported by another large enterprise Linux company (SUSE) instead of RH. SUSE can probably offer them some cost advantages too to sweeten the deal. For SUSE, this is a great way to get people to move away from RH and use this or eventually one of their other distros.

    Is that it? I am all for it and so should RH because this is what they wanted people to do instead of creating clones. I hope this works out for SUSE and they do even better in the future. I am going to be rooting for them.

    • NaN@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      It sounds like something like that. Oracle has also announced something similar, we could end up with a really weird situation with SUSE, Oracle, Alma, Rocky on some sort of collaborative Enterprise Linux distro base and Red Hat playing catch up or on the outside.

      An interesting thing I wasn’t aware of until I saw a comment on HN: the SUSE CEO just started there in May after 18 years at Red Hat. That’s not bad experience for such an endeavor.

      Edit: I hadn’t read SUSE’s actual press release close enough. They are already collaborating with CIQ/Rocky on this.

  • plebeian_@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    This is a plot twist…

    I guess this means rocky/alma or perhaps even oracle could start tracking this fork instead of RHEL?

    The big question is how this will evolve side by side with SLES? Will they converge? Will Suse’s fork be free or paid like SLES?

    • carzian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.

      Looks like free