What do you all think of the Red Hat drama a few months ago? I just learned about it and looked into it a bit. I’ve been using Fedora for a while now on my main system, but curious whether you think this will end up affecting it.

My take is that yes, it’s kinda a shitty move to do but I get why RH decided to stop their maintenance given they’re a for profit company.

What do you guys think? Do you still use or would you consider using Fedora?

  • NaNEnglish
    4•8 months ago

    SUSE doesn’t build openSUSE or control its direction (they have influence, but not in the same way). Leap had been planned to move to ALP, which looks like the future of SUSE Enterprise. If they changed that plan it is likely due to resources, ALP is primary focused at servers I believe. If they decide to go with only Slowroll and Tumbleweed is a community decision, and it appears the polling about it has been done within the community not dictated.

    I think it is very likely openSUSE will have a vanilla ALP distro of some sort as well, without adding bunch of extras to it that add maintenance burden. Just like they do with Micro OS and the other alternatives that aren’t really viable for desktop.

    Edit: to the last piece, the actual email about the survey mentions a 1:1 with ALP, so if somebody wanted “SUSE Stable” that is probably what they should look for.

    And if we focus on Desktop-only (relying on the 1:1 ALP copies for Server) we might not need as much effort.

    It seems more like where SUSE is going and where openSUSE as a distribution wants to go are different directions, that’s very little in common with the Red Hat / CentOS / Code issue.