The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Situation

This was recorded before the response from Red Hat, to sum it up, it did not go well.

That doesn't really impact what I said in the video and just reinforces my thoughts of it being a bad move.

Good thoughts and commentary. But, I'd like to add another reason that companies like to use RHEL and RHEL clones that I haven't seen anyone else mention. That is, out of all Linux distros, RHEL and its various clones have the best out-of-box security experience. And, RHEL and its clones are the only Linux distros that provide an easy-to-use mechanism to achieve regulatory compliance, because they're the only distros that fully support OpenSCAP and its full range of SCAP profiles. Yeah, you can configure something like Debian to be secure, but it requires a lot more work and experimentation to get things right.

A great job at explaining this.

Really good commentary, non-inflammatory. Blown out of size. RH blogs were clear to me, especially the point about non-value added rebuilders contributing little to nothing.

Red Has is dead. Its now IBM Hat. IBM is an evil law firm that just happens to sell computers.

Well, this is the usual "let's be elitist, cater only to the big fish, and the rabble can go fuck itself".
Oracle made the same choice some years ago.
And now, everybody is moving away from Oracle... very slowly, but even the biggest companies are moving away.
I have no doubt that it will be the same with RHEL

Actually, since that move, everywhere I go, I read that people are moving away, and most of them are not going to renew RHEL contracts, which is a very interesting result...!

Excellent hand waving technique

OpenBSD and FreeBSD fulfill all my needs now. When I learned IBM was buying RedHat my immediate reaction was, "Well shit, there goes CentOS."

No customer will switch away from RedHat, but also RedHat would not make any additional money from those customers. People who were using Alma or Rocky would not suddenly become RedHat customers. And it would be harder to hire people who know RedHat linux since people would not be able to use Alma or Rocky at home.

But God tells us the earth is only 6000 years old so I dont know how this relates to the title. 🤔

Well stated.

I have been running Debian on production servers for over 10 years, and I have never had any issues.

Red Hat has completed its journey to irrelevance. We have an audit requirement to have 3rd party support for our Linux production servers. We have a large number of production servers that were paid RHEL. But, we used CentOS for things like development, testing, and staging. These don't require support. While Red Hat support was great, but we hardly ever used it. We left the Red Hat ecosystem all together when they killed CentOS. It was a bad business decision on IBM's part. I suspect that they will have a short term gain, but long term people will be transitioning off.

Geez that's a huge difference! thanks for the video and info mate!

Moral of the story: EVERY publicly trading company goes to shit. No exceptions. Debian 12 is a great contendor. Maybe its time to consider it more for the server side.

if this redhet's strategy is success , the other floss (free libre open source software) will follow.

if these happen ,someday we maybe must buy gnu linux stable distro to use, see and modify the source code.

only unstable distro is free / floss :)


even maybe we must buy stable lts linux kernel to use and modify the source code , only unstable linux kernel is free / floss :)