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AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL
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Hmm? Does Red Hat have *anything* you couldn't install in *any* linux distro?
Alma sells support IIRC don't they? Or are you saying we need to fire all Windows IT specialists that are not Microsoft employees?
Can you install Satellite servers on your fleet of Ubuntu machines? OpenShift isn't free. I don't think there's anything that RHEL does that any other enterprise vendor can't do. And I don't support Red Hat (IBM) closing access to the source RPMs. But it costs money for vendors to develop their enterprise management platforms, the storage and bandwidth for geo-cached mirrors of updates, and all that. And if you're in an organization with a fleet of thousands of installations you need enterprise management platform.
Exactly. It costs Alma money to have the resources to do that. So customers will need to pay the support costs to keep Alma viable. Just like with RedHat. But enterprises a freaking out about needing a new free enterprise distro, because RH is too expensive to license on thousands of machines. So RH should be finding more flexible price models, instead of trying to squeeze out competition.
OKD is free and same as Openshift without support..
Not sure what direction you're leaning with this one. From here:
So it's the CentOS Stream of OpenShift. And just like CentOS Stream is openly available while Red Hat Enterprise is not, OKD is openly available while OpenShift is not. So revenue from OpenShift is used to support the development of OKD, just like with RHEL and CentOS Stream.
I just saying there OKD can be a replacement of OpenShift, even it's upstream, I just saying that it's possible to have somekind of openshift... in OKD.
The person you're talking to is strictly anti-opensource, he does not believe anything can be done with community projects.
ugh... I hope this doesn't end up flame war. Thank you for sharing and reminds me about it.
Raphael is blindly ignoring that I've literally said I don't support RedHat closing access to their sources and that I'm in here applauding Alma for moving away from their dependence on a greedy corporation. Somehow my acknowledging that enterprise support costs money to provide, and that the resources to develop and distribute FOSS aren't free, means to him that I'm just blindly opposed to FOSS and that I'm pro-corporation.
Your argument boils down to "It can't be helped".
In this thread I've said don't use RedHat because they're being dickbags, also maybe don't use clones of RHEL because they then see you as a customer who isn't paying them, and also if you need enterprise support it costs money so pay for it (because it also pays for the FOSS projects that these companies foster and contribute to).
So what is it that I'm saying can't be helped?
You say this and then you go on a large rant in the next post effectively defending Red Hat. You may be afflicted by Multiple Personality Disorder.
Please link/quote to me defending what RedHat is doing with access to their source repos. I've said repeatedly in this thread (and in your other satire s/RedHat/Linux/) post that we should all stop using RedHat and stop creating a market for Red Hat as the de facto standard, because I do not support what they're doing with access to their source repos.
Use Rauncher from SUSE instead, they may be a corp but they're committed to Free Software at the moment.
Care to check for how many BILLIONS Red Hat was sold for? It is more than profitable enough, capitalism propaganda won't fly this time around.
The free stuff is subsidized by enterprise subscriptions (and YaST sucks). That's all I'm saying. Alma has a free option and paid subscription. So does Rocky. So does Ubuntu. So does Suse. RedHat has free stuff too. (CentOS Stream, Fedora, and free RHEL developer license, and ubi). If you want the enterprise features of RedHat, pay the enterprise price. And if you don't want to (I sure don't), then use something else, because like you said we have choices.
You're way off the mark here. I haven't used RH in like 20 years, since they first introduced RHEL and killed its predecessor because screw that greedy shit. But I also haven't been trying to use 1:1 rebuilds of RHEL. Employers have made us use CentOS to because customers use RedHat but no we won't pay for RedHat but also no we can't use CentOS because no enterprise management to push security updates without the application updates but also no we won't pay for RedHat. It's stupid. Either pay for RedHat because you need it, or shut up and move onto something that isn't RedHat.