RHEL Free Tier vs CentOS Stream vs Alma Linux vs Rocky Linux
They are all kind of the same. Competition is great. They are all, to some extent, parasites living off RHEL. Is that too many parasites? Too many in what sense?: - hurts Red Hat, but that isn't immoral - a free version allows the system to go more places. This should actually help Red Hat. - it sometimes causes Red Hat to take evasive actions that hurt the product + eg. chunking of kernel changes to make more work for Oracle + eg. buying CentOS and then repurposing it - causes duplicated cloning work Without sufficient research, I kind of like the smell of Alma best. How about you?
On 31/01/2023 16.26, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
- hurts Red Hat, but that isn't immoral
Red Hat is IBM, so I guess they're kind of undead and far beyond hurt. I'm sure my late father would have been far less careful what he said about Big Blue, since he'd worked for ICT/ICL while IBM ruled the world. Stewart
On 1/31/23 21:32, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
I'm sure my late father would have been far less careful what he said about Big Blue, since he'd worked for ICT/ICL while IBM ruled the world.
Wow! I worked for ICL Canada when I was a co-op at Waterloo. Fun folks, and some nice and/or strange machines. --dave
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