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I work at a large bank and we are also sad they didn't release another RHEL compatible distro. We prefer not to pay RH subscription fees and are now looking at
by proteinfolding 5y ago
I work at a large bank and we are also sad they didn't release another RHEL compatible distro. We prefer not to pay RH subscription fees and are now looking at both Rocky and Oracle Linux. Can I contact you to share notes on approaching such a migration from AL2?
In addition to RHEL compatibility, AL2 worked well because our existing support plan with AWS covered it. It also came with free kernel 'live' patches unlike others (except Oracle).
- shaicoleman 5y ago"Amazon Linux 2022 includes kernel live patching functionality" [1] https://aws.amazon.com/linux/amazon-linux-2022/features/ https://aws.amazon.com/linux/amazon-linux-2022/features/
- mhoad 5y agoI don’t imagine this is really the kind of thing you can get into publicly but I’d love to know more about why a bank of all places doesn’t want to pay for RHEL and just go with the free fork instead.
- b112 5y agoThought? Nobody wants to pay for anything.
- simonh 5y agoThey may be wiling to pay for RHEL for some critical services, but there are a lot of things where a full RH sub doesn't make sense. Dev/test environments, non-critical services, web applications and applications with high parallelisation. You want to support as few OS variants as possible, so by using RH clones there this way you can have "can't tell by the taste" compatibility across all your systems. Plus it makes it easier hiring people.