Comment by devoply
7 years ago
Yeah, 10 years down the line RHEL is pretty much guaranteed dead. Probably say goodbye to Fedora as well.
7 years ago
Yeah, 10 years down the line RHEL is pretty much guaranteed dead. Probably say goodbye to Fedora as well.
This is sad, Fedora has been my favourite distribution for a little while. Red Hat have been a good community player and it is a big loss for them to be gobbled up by IBM. What is the best alternative to Fedora and CentOS?
The obvious alternative would be Ubuntu. The LTS releases are alternatives to RHEL/CentOS. The others are Fedora alternatives.
However, Red Hat is _far_ more than RHEL. They actually build a ton of OSS that's used in RHEL and elsewhere. Ubuntu does little more than repackage Debian. That's not a criticism. They package well, and they know how to polish. But there's no replacement for Red Hat as a company.
It's so weird because as a long time fedora user I absolutely detest Ubuntu. Can't stand how bloated it's become.
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OpenSuse, they've shown an ability to deal with corporate buyouts and survive. They also continue to support the open source community.
NixOS due to its excellent community and quality.
Debian is solidly community based. Ubuntu depends on Debian in order to add its own value on top.
I only used tried-and-tested distros like Yggdrasil.
I'm sticking with Fedora - too early to tell.
Too early to say what will happens with Fedora and other RH products.
DragonFly BSD
But Red Hat/Fedora has been a huge contributor to very basic Linux ecosystem things which everyone benefits from, like the freedesktop standard stuff and more.
I wonder how this change will pan out across the entire Linux-sphere. I’m wondering and I’m trying not to be pessimistic.