There are now a bunch of forks of the famed "Prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor"'s distro, including AWS and Oracle. What they all have in common is that then they add some software on top of that in various ways. Even CentOS used to have add on repositories. I wonder if they could all come together to start building more on top of this and be ready to be fully self sufficient and then take over leadership if, in future, the "Prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor" starts trying t
That can easily happen any time, but there are plenty of distros already. Suse immediately comes to mind if you still want a Redhat style OS with rpm packaging.
Worth noting that its been reported that Redhat did this because Centos was too good and more and some big vendors were running Centos instead of RHEL (eg facebook, google). I see how this is problem for Redhat but for a company with consistantly greater profits quater on quater for many years this was a great way to hugely damage their own communi
Worth noting that its been reported that Redhat did this because Centos was too good and more and some big vendors were running Centos instead of RHEL (eg facebook, google).
And this is how "rumors" become "facts" in peoples' minds. Google hasn't run any Linux distribution based on RedHat since 2007.
Time to start a foundation? Cooperation? (Score:2)
There are now a bunch of forks of the famed "Prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor"'s distro, including AWS and Oracle. What they all have in common is that then they add some software on top of that in various ways. Even CentOS used to have add on repositories. I wonder if they could all come together to start building more on top of this and be ready to be fully self sufficient and then take over leadership if, in future, the "Prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor" starts trying t
Re: Time to start a foundation? Cooperation? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re: Time to start a foundation? Cooperation? (Score:2)
And this is how "rumors" become "facts" in peoples' minds. Google hasn't run any Linux distribution based on RedHat since 2007.