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
Pure Debian is the way.
A lot of people suggested moving away from rhel and rhel based… I did not listen and now…
A lot of people suggested moving away from rhel and rhel based… I did not listen and now…
Alma and Rocky Linux both said it’s not a change that will dramatically impact them. They’ll have to adapt the existing workflows but they’ll both continue.
Yeah, the writing was on the wall as soon as IBM acquired Red Hat. IBM is going to end up hollowing out Red Hat in their drive for more revenue. They started by destroying CentOS, which used to be a community-supported binary-compatible RHEL analog but is now effectively RHEL Beta and thus useless for enterprise work. Now they’re closing the source so they can kill the other RHEL analogs, like Rocky Linux.
It’s such a short-sighted move though, so many things got built on RHEL and compatible because those FOSS options existed. IBM seems to think that some significant percentage of those free installs can be converted to a paid install, and they might be right in the short term but I think the long-term impact is gonna be dire. Over time RHEL could became a closed-source ghetto in the FOSS world because fewer developers will be able to test their open source projects on RHEL without paying the IBM tax. Once RHEL starts to fall behind it could cause enough friction that enterprises will start looking to other distros, and then Red Hat’s primary revenue stream starts to dry up.
cause enough friction that enterprises will start looking to other distros
Highly unlikely IMO, unless someone else enters the market of commercial support.
I’ve been working for big enterprises for decades, not IT companies but big nonetheless.
The reason why Linux could “break the barrier” and enter the enterprise market (at least in EU) is that one day Red Hat became a company capable of guarantee support by means of support contracts.
Big enterprises don’t care a product is the best in the world IF they cannot have a contract with some entity capable of commercially supporting it every time there’s a problem.
I believe it’s very stupid on IBM part to make this move, but as long as they maintain their contracts, big enterprises will stay on Red Hat, they won’t care about what will happen to independent developers, they wouldn’t be using their software anyway.
Very sad, but at enterprise level there are not many choices when it comes to opensource software.
What??? Is there an article rather than a video?
here’s the exact post right from RH themselves
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream
Am I missing something? Nothing there says anything about becoming closed source?
Quoted from my other post: Well in order to access the CentOS stream repo you need to have a subscription. So really not closed source but rather “harder-to-view-the-source”.
Well in order to access the CentOS stream repo you need to have a subscription.
That’s false. The sources are right here, open to the world and open for contribution. What was shut down was the automation to export RHEL source RPMs to the legacy location. The source RPM exports were pretty much useless for contributors and maintainers of RHEL and CentOS. However, they were critical for RHEL rebuilds, which is why people are upset.
Red Hat can’t go closed source since the source they’re distributing is released under the GPL. They’re required to distribute code to anyone they distribute binaries to, and they can’t stop anyone who has their code from redistributing it.
I remember people on reddit saying the IBM buyout “is no big deal” and IBM will maintain Redhat “in good faith”
