That’s what everyone one does with FreeBSD. Most network gear is some stripped BSD variant. The difference with say Oracle Awesome Linux or whatever is that th

That’s what everyone one does with FreeBSD. Most network gear is some stripped BSD variant. The difference with say Oracle Awesome Linux or whatever is that they are selling RH’s value add work and ecosystem as a service. As in they literally come in “Buy this stuff to be supported with our other stuff, we ship whatever RH ships.” IMO, Red Hat’s changes are really making it more expensive to create exclusive “Oracle Red Hat for X” or similar business models. The people who can’t afford RHEL for their academic HPI still can’t, and just pick something else. People here quacking about Fedora are just quacking - Fedora is a project with a commercial purpose that serves the company’s needs. It will exists until it doesn’t. RH isn’t Microsoft - everyone acknowledges that lots of distros exist and many are excellent. You can start a distribution today. But “fine, I’ll just use Debian” isn’t really a valid answer either. Debian is an awesome project and product, but if you chose Red Hat in the first place for reasons other than “I got a CD with a magazine in 1998”, Debian probably isn’t ideal without you doing alot of work. Then it’s a money discussion. (Cost of humans doing stuff vs paying RH to do stuff and humans to do other stuff)