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“As I don't like software audits” You went with the distro cloned by the company that perfected the concept?
by jzb 3y ago
“As I don't like software audits”
You went with the distro cloned by the company that perfected the concept?
- chasil 3y agoI actually didn't have a choice. In about 2007, we bought our first Red Hat to migrate functionality away from HP-UX. We eventually rolled the license that we purchased on a credit card into the corporate account. In about 2009, "yum update" stopped working, and I called Red Hat, where I learned that corporate had terminated the licensing. Investigating, they advised me to run the Oracle converter, and resume pulling patches. In 2013, corporate again switched to Red Hat. I did not. Corporate has been audited. I have not. I'm using some btrfs loopback mounts with the UEK, and sales calls with Red Hat expressed extreme distaste for this. At this point, why would I go back?
- jzb 3y agoThanks for sharing that. It's illuminating. w/r/t btrfs - I recall when it was deprecated from tech preview in RHEL. I know some users really, really wanted it and it keeps popping up - Fedora is now using it, but I am skeptical that it's going to make it into RHEL anytime soon given that it was in RHEL as a tech preview and then pulled. I know SUSE supports it, I have a NAS that uses it, but seems like it's been found to be wanting by some of the folks who decide what gets into RHEL and doesn't.