Linux distribution company SUSE plans to create a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, investing $10M into the project over the coming years
A storm is brewing in open-source land that could change the Linux distro landscape — Today, SUSE announced that it is creating a hard fork …
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Discussion
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9to5Linux
Marius Nestor
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SUSE Announces Free RHEL Fork to Preserve Choice in Enterprise Linux
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@mreferre
@mreferre
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You all, Suse is forking RedHat. https://www.suse.com/... [image]
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@nixcraft
@nixcraft
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Here we go. After Oracle. Today, SUSE announced RHEL fork. SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment https://www.suse.com/...
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@nixcraft
@nixcraft
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Red hat blog that started storm https://www.redhat.com/... Oracle said they will set enterprise Linux free https://www.oracle.com/... SUSE announced RHEL fork https://www.suse.com/... More info from Rocky https://rockylinux.org/... Alma Linux https://almalinux.org/... https://twi…
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@peterzaitsev
Peter Zaitsev
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SuSE throws the hat into creating RHEL compatible Linux https://www.suse.com/... #suse #linux #rhel #opensource
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@geerlingguy
Jeff Geerling
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And now @SUSE is teaming up with @CtrlIQ and forking Enterprise Linux... Paired with the @Oracle news, maybe @RedHat should be careful what they wish for. https://www.suse.com/...
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@totev
Ivo Totev
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SUSE's CEO, @dpvleeuwen, shares more about @SUSE's $10+ million investment into forking RHEL to develop and maintain a RHEL-compatible distribution. We invite you to join us as we make choice happen for customers and the open source community. Read more: https://okt.to/y71uE6
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@jas_np
James Sanders
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Genuinely, I cannot recall a situation in which a *single blog post* resulted in a competitor introducing a new product to fill a void created absolutely unnecessarily. Doing absolutely nothing would have been the better move, at this point. https://techcrunch.com/...
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r/linux
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[Official Announcement] SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment
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r/linuxadmin
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SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10 Million Investment