Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

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Posted by Rambler in Linux

Red Hat has announced that public source releases will be restricted to CentOS Stream going forward:

As the CentOS Stream community grows and the enterprise software world tackles new dynamics, we want to sharpen our focus on CentOS Stream as the backbone of enterprise Linux innovation. We are continuing our investment in and increasing our commitment to CentOS Stream. CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases. For Red Hat customers and partners, source code will remain available via the Red Hat Customer Portal.

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not_bob wrote

Red Hat was only ever my choice when I was young and didn't know any better. Best to avoid them entirely.

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noptic wrote

There are so many quality alternatives now that this decision will only lower their market share. They are trying hard to be the new Microsoft.

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Rambler OP wrote

This.

I work in the web-hosting industry, and there are a handful of common and popular proprietary software used that used to require CentOS / RHEL as the base OS. Then most of them now support AlmaLinux, which I've got on a handful of servers as a requirement. Haven't really used Rocky Linux, but have used AlmaLinux a lot now, and I run CloudLinuxOS which is/was RHEL based but it's a commercial Linux OS geared towards this industry.

Anyway, FINALLY some of these companies are producing statements that they're releasing Debian/Ubuntu betas or have it on their roadmap for making their software work on these OSes. Which is great.

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idk wrote

Sad to see it happen but it was pretty clear that they were getting worse at ATO in Raleigh, which was basically a FAANG convention. Bunch of depressed Google employees actively trying to get people to steal merch. Shit was weird.

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Qball wrote (edited by a moderator )

I knew it! Digital masochists are embedded in this network. I was Fed-up for a decade and when the typewriter shills took over, I knew they will backdoor the crap out of Red Hat. Silver Blue rawhide was my last use around 2018 before I considered Red Hat used toilet paper.

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