Sysadmin News: SUSE to FORK RHEL?! Also Oracle Tries to Not Be the Bad Guy

I honestly though I was done covering this but new stuff comes out and I would feel amiss if I didn’t at least mention it for a few minutes here and get everyones feedback on it.

So it looks like SUSE is gonna fork RHEL and made a $10+ Million investment, and Oracle Linux is gonna do everything in their power to look like the good guy and offer a free product “somehow” that will allow it to maintain its parity to RHEL.

I was really surprised to see Oracle sort of splitting from RHEL here because I thought they had an agreement together, but maybe they’re side stepping that for now.

For you linux users out there does this news just make things a bigger head ache because you were kinda hoping it was all over? Sorry.

Oracle Statement: https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/
SUSE: https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/#:~:text=Today%20SUSE%2C%20the%20company%20behind%20Rancher%2C%20NeuVector%2C%20and,a%20RHEL-compatible%20distribution%20available%20to%20all%20without%20restrictions.
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