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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey! it will be great to have a proper alternative for the companies that are on CentOS. I take that as good news!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Alma and Rocky have been around for a while already. Most people I know moved over to those after Centos went EOL. Not sure what Suse will do that these don't already do.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Alma and Rocky depend on the publicly available source code for RHEL. Red Hat decided to close source except to paying customers. https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From the announcement: the will cooperate with Rocky and others to have a common rhel compatible fork

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

Interesting. The place I work at mostly use RHEL, with Rocky as an option for customers not wanting to pay for RHEL support. Will look into Suse's offering once it arrives.