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[โ€“] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Linux can do that too. โ•ฐ(โ–”โˆ€โ–”)โ•ฏ

https://www.redhat.com/en/store/linux-platforms

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (4 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Of course, red hat is the biggest linux enterprise vendor

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Nothing in the license prevents you from selling it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Open source software is free as in freedom, not as in price. Open source software does tend to cost nothing, but it's not illegal to charge money for it.

What you pay for with Redhat is mostly a support package and very long-term kernel patches.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Well the more you know. Thank you stranger!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

obviously not, they bribe the police in helicopter

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As another commenter noted, I guess you haven't met red hat

[โ€“] fruitycoder 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They sell support more than anything

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They have a fair amount of features, like satellite

[โ€“] fruitycoder 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I really like RedHat's product line as a way to move a business towards the FOSS ecosystem. I really wish they hadn't done their enshitfitcation of their products, but even after that they are still better than most enterprise alternatives.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah we are looking to replace them ourselves tbh

[โ€“] fruitycoder 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I make sure to include OpenEL as the spec we are building on instead of RHEL. I like the architecture, just not the liability their non-foss policies put on us. We got hit by HashiCorps license change too, rough bit of time to be honest.

Who are you looking at? Suse and Rancher are two I am keeping an eye on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

We are an MSSP so it's a bit different. Since we can offload license costs to customers and as long as they prefer having this party support and it's not losing us bids we are ok.

But we have been looking at Ubuntu and CentOS previously, the main issue is how to replace Satellite.

For Kubernetes we run on k3OS

[โ€“] fruitycoder 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What features of satellite really have you hooked?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Mainly package management and patching

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

RHEL would like a word ;)