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.
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.
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.
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.