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That would be cool "stick it to the man" trick, but how do we organize?

apecat 6y ago
Well, GoDaddy, or heh, AWS are The Man. My best hope is that the major hosting vendors, or maybe some industry consortium might offer resources for this.
- syshum 6y ago
  AWS already has their on RHEL Clone, Amazon Linux, for use on AWS
- apecat 6y ago
  @syshum, yes, but it's not exacly RHEL, and it's not distributed outside AWS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347232 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347232 But the point is indeed that there are resources and infrastructure, so one might be hopeful that there will be a good outcome. One possible outcome would be increased demand and resources for Debian and/or Ubuntu and I definitely wouldn't mind that (five years of support isn't all that much in IT). Realistically though, a lot of people need RHEL for free and I suspect there will be a way.
  - posix_me_less 6y ago
    Yeah, resources and infrastrucure are not some magic that only Redhat can provide. If sources will be released on https://git.centos.org/ https://git.centos.org/ or somewhere else, then it may work. Just like the old times [1] [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/128952/ https://lwn.net/Articles/128952/
  - InvaderFizz 6y ago
    > @syshum, yes, but it's not exacly RHEL, and it's not distributed outside AWS On the first point you are correct. It's not exactly RHEL7. On the second point, Amazon provides images for running on prem[0]. We run a lot of dev AmazonLinux2 VMs on prem so that the local computing environment matches the deployed EC2 environment. 0: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/amazon-linux-2-virtual-machine.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/amazon-l...
    - apecat 6y ago
      @invaderFizz: oh, this is useful to me, thanks!
rbowen 6y ago
Not only does this not "stick it to the man", it's directly addressed in the FAQ. If folks want to boot up another rebuild project, there's nothing preventing that. There are also several existing ones that you could go join.
- thayne 6y ago
  CentOS started out as just such a project...

Well, GoDaddy, or heh, AWS are The Man. My best hope is that the major hosting vendors, or maybe some industry consortium might offer resources for this.

syshum 6y ago
AWS already has their on RHEL Clone, Amazon Linux, for use on AWS
apecat 6y ago
@syshum, yes, but it's not exacly RHEL, and it's not distributed outside AWS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347232 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347232 But the point is indeed that there are resources and infrastructure, so one might be hopeful that there will be a good outcome. One possible outcome would be increased demand and resources for Debian and/or Ubuntu and I definitely wouldn't mind that (five years of support isn't all that much in IT). Realistically though, a lot of people need RHEL for free and I suspect there will be a way.
- posix_me_less 6y ago
  Yeah, resources and infrastrucure are not some magic that only Redhat can provide. If sources will be released on https://git.centos.org/ https://git.centos.org/ or somewhere else, then it may work. Just like the old times [1] [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/128952/ https://lwn.net/Articles/128952/
- InvaderFizz 6y ago
  > @syshum, yes, but it's not exacly RHEL, and it's not distributed outside AWS On the first point you are correct. It's not exactly RHEL7. On the second point, Amazon provides images for running on prem[0]. We run a lot of dev AmazonLinux2 VMs on prem so that the local computing environment matches the deployed EC2 environment. 0: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/amazon-linux-2-virtual-machine.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/amazon-l...
  - apecat 6y ago
    @invaderFizz: oh, this is useful to me, thanks!

rbowen 6y ago

Not only does this not "stick it to the man", it's directly addressed in the FAQ. If folks want to boot up another rebuild project, there's nothing preventing that. There are also several existing ones that you could go join.

thayne 6y ago
CentOS started out as just such a project...