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Why do bug-for-bug with RHEL at all? Why not turn Alma and Rocky into stable distributions in their own right? If this pushes RHEL into oblivion, why should an
by CrLf 3y ago
Why do bug-for-bug with RHEL at all? Why not turn Alma and Rocky into stable distributions in their own right?
If this pushes RHEL into oblivion, why should anyone care?
The Debian ecosystem isn't centered on Ubuntu, it's centered on Debian. Comparisons between the two ecosystems are invalid because of this simple fact.
It would be nice to see the "Red Hat" ecosystem recenter around something which isn't a direct source release of a commercial product. Alma and Rocky should rebase on CentOS Stream for starters, and then try to get closer to Fedora as an upstream.
(BTW, I speak as someone who did corporate systems administration for years and understands the use case of replacing RHEL licenses with free CentOS installs perfectly.)
- bluedino 3y ago> Why do bug-for-bug with RHEL at all? Why not turn Alma and Rocky into stable distributions in their own right? Because the whole point is for them to be 'compatible'. Many of the users are running software that needs to be on RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/etc or it won't be supported. Sure, there are users who just want a stable OS, but the real point of Rocky/Alma is to have a 100% RHEL-compatible, but free distro.
- bonzini 3y agoThere are many levels of compatibility. ABI compatibility is perhaps the least stringent, bug compatibility is the most picky.