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Linux mint = best beginner distro (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Out of the mainstream distros what might end up getting bought by Google or even Microsoft, Ubuntu seems to me like the most likely candidate.

I mean, RedHat was once the even more likely candidate, but

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

RedHat is unapologetically the Enterprise Linux so they're very close to Windows Server in that way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I find Redhat annoying with how they lock down access to KB articles unless you have a subscription and certain "proprietary " things they do but I managed over 500 RHEL 7 and 8 servers at my previous job and I will say that their support is excellent, and RHEL is rock solid. Satellite server on the other hand, that thing is a steaming pile of garbage...

[–] h3rm17 2 points 9 months ago

You can create a free developer account. They don't really check you are a developer either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah Satellite was the worst thing about managing RHEL but it's still leagues better than similar products for Windows. We basically just used Sat for licensing and as a local repo so it wasn't too bad for that. We started using Ansible more just as I left my sysadmin career. Lots of rhel with rac and jboss.