nixCraft 🐧Jul 11, 2023

For those who didn't follow the whole story or drama so far about Red Hat/IBM. Here we go:

1. Red hat blog that started storm https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream

2. Oracle said they will set enterprise Linux free https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/

3. SUSE announced RHEL fork https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/

4. More info from Rocky Linux https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/

5. Also from Alma Linux https://almalinux.org/blog/our-value-is-our-values/

Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream

As the CentOS Stream community grows and the enterprise software world tackles new dynamics, we want to sharpen our focus on CentOS Stream as the backbone of enterprise Linux innovation. We are continuing our investment in and increasing our commitment to CentOS Stream. CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases.

Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Jul 11, 2023

Alma, Rocky, Oracle and the new SuSE-RHEL will all keep striving for binary compatibility.

They will all have to do research on what went into each binary release, as exact corresponding source packages are now no longer provided to the general public.

Will these four engage in coopetition and create some shared base source-code distro? That would be an interesting outcome.

Show threadMans RJul 11, 2023
@clacke Research? Wouldn't it be cheaper for them to simply get a single RHEL subscription and request the sources?
Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

@mansr If you use your rights under the license you are in breach of the subscription terms of service.

They say this doesn't violate copyleft. I don't see how it doesn't.

Jul 12, 2023 at 12:50amWeb
Show threadMans RJul 12, 2023
@clacke Hasn't something like that been tried before? It sounds familiar somehow.