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Can someone ELI5 the situation with Red Hat and CentOS? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been hearing about it a lot over the last few days, but I don't exactly understand what's going on. What's going on with Red Hat, and how does it affect Linux users?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is it a dick move? Absolutely.

When this is such a dick move, why has no one cared about SLES not publishing the sources to a openly accessible page?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do. It's called openSUSE Leap

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In that sense, isn't Redhat pushing to CentOS Stream?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Uh. The relationship between CentOS Stream and RHEL is a bit murkier to me. I'd be lying to you if I said I fully understood how that code flow works.

For openSUSE the flow is "openSUSE Tumbleweed" -> "SUSE Linux Enterprise" -> "openSUSE Leap"

Everytime SUSE creates a new version/service pack of SLE (SLE 15 SP4, to use an example) the sources for that version are provided to openSUSE, and a new version of Leap is released (openSUSE Leap 15.4)

I don't actually work on Leap much, nor am I a SUSE Employee, so there are probably some minutae in that process that I'm missing, but that's the basic workflow.