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Go for it. I hope lots of people switch to Debian and help support its development. If RHEL isn't compelling enough to pay for, then Debian is great and availab
by jzb 3y ago
Go for it. I hope lots of people switch to Debian and help support its development. If RHEL isn't compelling enough to pay for, then Debian is great and available for free and that community isn't trying to make a profit. So IMO everybody wins in that scenario.
If you are paying for RHEL and are willing to switch on principle, then tell your sales rep that, too. If enough RHEL customers drop RHEL for this reason, that'll have an impact.
But if your business is using a RHEL clone because you want what RHEL provides, but for free, then consider paying for RHEL. Or go ahead and switch to Debian and see if the costs associated with switching and staying on top of a community driven distro outweigh what you save not paying for RHEL.
- pabs3 3y agoDebian have a document here about all the different ways that you can help us with money or time etc: https://www.debian.org/intro/help https://www.debian.org/intro/help
- progmetaldev 3y agoI think those that were using CentOS for stability would do well to switch to Debian Stable. It will give more users and testers to the Debian project, which can only help to grow the Linux community (as scattered as it may be). I know there were a lot of sysadmins that used CentOS because they understood the system enough not to need support from Red Hat and RHEL.