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Good for RH! AFAIR they abandoned the freely-downloadable Red Hat Linux, and started charging for the pre-compiled versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL),
by eggy 11y ago
Good for RH! AFAIR they abandoned the freely-downloadable Red Hat Linux, and started charging for the pre-compiled versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and this is when they started making money to be where they are today. Didn't they have a falling out with Linus?
- kbenson 11y agoThat was really just rebranding. Red hat Linux split into Fedora (free) and RHEL (for pay). Even so, the source for all the rpms for both distressing are available, and CentOS has been using that to build their RHEL clone for years, and has always had an amicable relationship with RedHat as far as I know. I don't know anything regarding Linus.
- dcgudeman 11y agoCentOS has been officially part Red Hat since 2014 http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/#_centos_trademark http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/#_centos_trademark
- rodgerd 11y ago> Didn't they have a falling out with Linus? He had one of his tedious, high-profile, foul-mouthed rants at a RH kernel dev when Linus didn't understand the dev's patches. Is that what you're thinking of? They did give Linus a boatload of shares around the time they were going public.
- digi_owl 11y agoThat would be when Linus refused to apply some patches that would effectively give Microsoft signing authority over the kernel via UEFI. In classic Torvalds style he wrote that if Red Hat wanted to deep throat Microsoft, they were free to do so in their distro.