Comment by TheRealDunkirk

7 years ago

> I would say that Fedora and CentOS aren't going away anywhere.

That was the sentiment regarding OpenSolaris when Oracle bought Sun... (And I can't believe no one's mentioned this in 800+ comments so far.)

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bubblethink  7 years ago

OpenSolaris came after regular Solaris. It was a retroactive opening of code, and wasn't as essential to regular Solaris. In contrast, Fedora is quite instrumental to RHEL's existence. CentOS is not that instrumental, but it's not a major cost sink either. It used to be community driven earlier and can become so again. i.e., Unless they go out of their way to do something malicious, which would have little payoff anyway.

  • dexterous  7 years ago

    > Fedora is quite instrumental to RHEL's existence

    Could you expand on that? I'm curious.

    • bubblethink  7 years ago

      Fedora is upstream for RHEL. RHEL is made up of several Fedora releases. Fedora is also the testing ground for RHEL.