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Regardless of your views of cloning a commercial Linux distro like that, alling Rocky Linux and Alma Linux 'dirtbags' misses the point of the entire reason they
by Aaron2222 3y ago
Regardless of your views of cloning a commercial Linux distro like that, alling Rocky Linux and Alma Linux 'dirtbags' misses the point of the entire reason they exist in the first place, RedHat discontinuing CentOS (and drastically shortening the support window on CentOS 8).
- freedomben 3y agowho called them dirtbags? I've seen this mentioned a few times but I haven't seen any source for it
- 0x0000000 3y agoIt's in one of the comments on the linked article, and was reposted in the top comment in the thread in which you're replying. It seems to be sourced originally from here: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3697733/chatgpt-s-parasitic-machine.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/3697733/chatgpt-s-parasiti...
- reidrac 3y agoBesides it isn't true they don't contribute. As you say, they are filling the gap left by CentOS, and that helps sustaining an ecosystem that benefits RHEL.