• poVoq
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    121 year ago

    Better SUSE than Oracle I guess so we will see how this works out. But in general it is good (and even in Red Hat’s interest) if more people invest into the development of a stable enterprise Linux release instead of leaching off Red Hat’s contributions.

    • @[email protected]
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      This isnt good for Redhat. Its a hard fork that will be compatible with rhel, basically a new Centos, with SUSE marketing and branding all over it. Even the announcement mentions 5 other SUSE products for the enterprise while offering an alternative to rhel. This is a sales funnel away from Redhat enterprise products to SUSE enterprise products.

      This is good for linux, not for Redhat.

      • poVoq
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        01 year ago

        You are missing the point. More contributions to Linux helps RHEL more than copy-cat re-builds that contribute nothing.

        • @gobbling871
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          61 year ago

          More contributions to Linux from parties other than RHEL don’t help RHEL. That’s literally the view they have taken since their announcement.

          • poVoq
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            1 year ago

            That is not what they said at all. They said pure bug-for-bug compatible rebuilds don’t help RHEL. Which is undeniably true.

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              Just because they said that they don’t think RHEL clones contribute to the RHEL ecosystem doesn’t mean that it is entirely true. Are you new to PR speak?

              • poVoq
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                01 year ago

                Yet they consistently say that other contributions to Linux are very welcome and help RHEL, CentOS stream and everyone else. I think you have a strong case of selective memory and reading comprehension that only sees what fits into your pre-determined world-view 😜

                • @gobbling871
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                  41 year ago

                  Yes. What they say and their actions are entirely contradictory in my own warped view.

                  But good thing am not the only one who seems to think so 🤪 as clearly Oracle and SUSE agree with this view.

            • @[email protected]
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              01 year ago

              I think maybe to point out that SUSE is already the second largest enterprise Linux provider in the market. They already studied RHEL code, this would have been a gentleman’s agreement broken not to outright copy each other. RHEL will easily copy SLES improvements and incorporate it into their own code, but SUSE will gain marketshare.

  • @whaleross
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    41 year ago

    I don’t understand what the benefit for SUSE is of this? Wouldn’t they want enterprise to use their own distros? Gaining cred from the FOSS/Linux community while undermining RHEL economically? Hmm, maybe I just answered my own question.