Fuckkkk
Huge L for the community and for my cheap ass company that will likely be migrating away soon 😭
Users looking to run an EL-like linux that pre-dates RedHat's derivation and meddling will want to look at PCLinuxOS .
Its pedigree is mageia, so Mandrake and Conectiva.
While it's got a horrifically bad PXE install, and while that means Vagrants and templates are ghetto and thin on the ground, it's otherwise a very fine OS with a wide compatibility range that RH couldn't even match with this AppStream bullshit (ohai, /etc/alternatives).
I know this isn't related but: Why do I see a completely different set of comments here when I'm logged in, as opposed to when I'm not?
Could be bc of how you set sorting comments in your account vs guest's default.
Sometimes comments won't load for the post, it loads the comments for the last post you visited. Refreshing tends to fix it
I noticed this when I set my language settings in my lemmy profile.
The chatter around the water cooler at my office is that this may kill Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux (at least as downstream forks of RHEL). It will be very painful for companies that want RedHat support for their production systems but don't want to pay for RHEL licenses for developer test beds.
Are there any other distros that are foss and provide optional enterprise support? Enterprises deploy distros that offer guarantees, warranties, and compliance measures to ensure stability, reliability, and legal compliance. If I'd build a company, I'd feel a lot more comfortable with a distro that I can upgrade to an enterprise version when that's necessary. But... now?
I suppose there's Ubuntu and SLES.
I believe opensuse fits your description.
Fuck, I really hope this doesn't turn the tides for other Red Hat projects.
Not even my Linux distros can escape the enshittiness. WTF man.
I use Fedora, but I'm very uneasy with the fact that they are married to Red Hat. If things go south for Fedora, I hope a community driven fork can survive if not Fedora itself.
It's ultimately because of capital. Capital controls resource allocation, so any project that requires resources will have to align with capital interests
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