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It’s become clear to many that Red Hat’s recent missteps with CentOS and the availability of RHEL source code indicate that it’s fallen from its respected place as “the open organization.” SUSE seems to be poised to benefit from Red Hat’s errors. We connect the dots.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This seems like a PR release and has zero proof or data in the article to back itself up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Yep. I've seen nothing of the sort in the wild. Still Ubuntu and RHEL/Centos/Rocky/AMZ2 in the DC almost exclusively. The only things I've seen making a few inroads for practical applications are CachyOS and Clear Linux.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Didn't SUSE just ask openSUSE to change its name?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mmm, maybe. "Joining the dots" also can be read as "taking a lot of bad feeling about X, and some good activity about Y and exaggerating both"

EL is pretty dominant still, although much of that seems to be Rocky/Alma rather than RHEL, but there's no way to get real numbers.

What I have seen is a lot of uptick in Debian and Ubuntu servers. We are moving away from EL towards Debian now because of what we perceive as ongoing instability in the EL ecosystem caused by Redhat. Our business depends on a reliable Linux OS so we're doing the maths.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Strange, I've not really seen that. Where I work we've just transitioned to RHEL. And Rocky/Alma are nowhere near as popular as RHEL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Interesting, thanks. Those I've spoken to moved from Centos to Rocky when that was killed, and I know of more that moved to Debian.