The group known for going against the grain, and intentionally looking for alternatives. Are going against the grain and looking for alternatives.
How unexpected.
I remember a lot of people telling me that redhat and CentOS are the professional way to go a couple of years back
Right now, IBM are making Ubuntu look better and that’s a HARD sale with them shitty snaps.
@dontcarebear @ylai Debian is hard to beat… Screw corporate Linux… Stick with tried and true distros like Debian & everything will be sweet…
I think I’ll be checking out OpenSuse. They haven’t been controversial lately afaik and just keep doing their thing.
In my eyes my problem with moving to SUSE or Ubuntu is that it’s the same thing. A corporation backed or straight up corporation developed and owned distro still has ONE failure point. Right now SUSE are “the good guys”, but what if they get bought? What if there’s a new CEO? What if they suddenly just decide to abuse their power? Then you’re simply screwed. Red Hat were also seen as “one of the good guys” some months ago, but the way things work, companies always end up pivoting towards what makes them more money. Them being ethical is nothing but a luxury that happens if they can afford it and if we are lucky.
I’m moving to Debian once I get my new PC.
Absolutely agreed. I just don’t think many non-IT businesses would consider using Debian. So, if you want a job, get certified on one of the commercial three.
I use Debian on my servers already, though I’m on Arch with my pc and laptop.
Absolutely agreed. I just don’t think many non-IT businesses would consider using Debian.
Really? I’d assume the opposite case, no? If a business is not related to IT, it doesn’t really need to be compatible with the RHEL environment or tech support, whereas an IT business would prefer those. I also use Debian for my server and have never had any issues with it. Just upgraded it to bookworm recently and it was boringly seamless.
Nah @exu is right: non-IT focused companies do not have the skills or desire to reliably set up and maintain these systems. There is no benefit to them creating their own server stack based on a community distro to save a few bucks.
Smaller companies will hire MSPs to get them setup and maintain what they need. And medium to large size companies would want an enterprise solution (IE: RHEL) they can reliably integrate into their operations.
This is for a few high value reasons. Taking Red Hat as an example:
- Standardization (IE: they can hire people with RedHat certificates and they will be a few steps ahead in ramping up to internal systems)
- Vendor support (IE: if something critical isn’t working they can get quick support from a Red Hat technician and get it resolved quickly)
- Reliability (IE: all software is backed and tested by Red Hat and if anything breaks from a package update its on Red Hat to fix)
When lots of money is on the line companies want as many safety/contingency plans as they can get which is why RedHat makes sense.
The only companies that will roll their own solution are either very small with knowledgeable IT people (smaller startups), or MASSIVE companies that will create very custom solutions and then train their own IT operations divisions (talking like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon levels).
Not to say what Red Hat did is justified or good, because hampering the FOSS ecosystem is destructive overall, but just putting this into context.
Whenever you use “RedHat”, replace it with “IBM”, as that’s who they really are now. Tech companies to avoid (imho) are IBM and Oracle, both of who have linux distros.
Until Canonical or SUSE become evil (unlikely), or are bought by an industry evil, then you’re better off.
I mean, in my eyes Canonical is already evil. SUSE is pretty nice right now, but like I said, them being nice is nothing but a luxury. There’s no guarantee it wont happen, and you could probably argue it’s fated to happen eventually.
There’s nothing wrong with Ubuntu in a professional environment. I prefer Debian, but whatever suits your goals.
It’s quite a stretch to call the RHEL-clone companies “the Linux Community”.
RedHat developers created large parts of the Linux software ecosystem and are involved in many upstream projects of RHEL. If anyone is part of the community, it’s them.
If I was a business customer of Rocky, I would not sleep well knowing what kind of sketchy backdoor way they use to keep their distro alive… Alma however seems to be doing it properly and they will actually create a benefit to the open source community this way.
they’re doing what they need to. it’s not sketchy. it’s not like they fired up a bittorrent search for ‘rhel sources’ and took the first results (ru, cn, probably) they found.
but i’d rather they just blatantly subscribed to rhel, downloaded all the sources directly, stripped their branding out, packaged alma, and dared ibm to go after them.
In the end, I see Red Hat’s behavior as a net win for the open source community. It’s going to drive Linux innovation harder. Ironically, the is a net loss for Red Hat. It’s a serious self-inflicted wound.
