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In addition to the other comments, Red Hat (and SUSE, Oracle Linux UEK) have cemented partnerships with many hardware providers like Dell, HP, Broadcom, Emulex
by gravitas 7y ago
In addition to the other comments, Red Hat (and SUSE, Oracle Linux UEK) have cemented partnerships with many hardware providers like Dell, HP, Broadcom, Emulex and similar. New hardware kernel module needs are routinely backported to their production stable kernels (low risk to adopt), and in reverse many of these companies only make tooling which works on these distros. Ubuntu / Debian do not have that kind of support - it's a gamble; Red Hat is not a gamble for the Enterprise, this even extends up the stack into Oracle DBA, SAP Solutions (HANA etc.) and other large Enterprise ecosystems.