Redhat goes CLOSED SOURCE?

we just had some of the biggest news in the Linux realm I've seen thus far um in probably the past decade maybe of all time and that is red hat is closed sourcing Rel Red Hat Enterprise Linux that's kind of wild to me because there's a lot of offshoots I've talked about Rocky in the past there's Alma Linux and those are essentially Red Hat Enterprise Linux one to one almost an exact clone of it and they're used everywhere in business now in desktop realm we're not really talking about that because honestly desktop Linux doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of the world but if you're a Windows user you use a lot of things in in our world today a lot of them are built with Rel systems a good point of this I've I've built hundreds of asterisk boxes using uh Centos Centos 7 back in the day uh in the the mid to early 2010s a lot of government agencies would ship these boxes out so they could have emergency phone support uh or phone systems wherever they went using asterisks a whole different thing but the important part of this is is Rel and it's being open was a key part of that and much like Rocky and Alma have continued that tradition of kind of copying Rel um I don't know how they'll continue now they did release this on their Twitter so they they're still continuing development I don't know how they're going to be able to copy red hat uh the actual official statement from Red Hat was that uh all the source is gonna be just in decentos stream one which how how this works uh imagine uh Debbie and Ubuntu you know how they're a little bit different uh Downstream is Ubuntu over here and you have Debian but Ubuntu does some things differently you're like hey man why install Firefox it installs a snap there's a lot of weird stuff that happens in Ubuntu that doesn't happen on Debian right because debian's Upstream well how uh Red Hat Enterprise Linux works is really far Upstream where they're like kind of messing around kind of beta test and stuff that's Fedora right that's where most the desktop uh cool hobbyists and stuff kind of live and then downstreams a little bit Cintas stream right that's that's Downstream over here it's a little more tried and true than a fedora and it's more stable has a little bit older packages and then finally all the way down here is is gonna be your red hat Enterprise Linux and that has the most stable packages the most most secure it's great and that's all the way down here and everyone would copy in this guy because in business we want the most stable thing we don't care if the packages are a little bit old and that's what's happening is this is getting closed it's getting completely closed Source from Red Hat and that means you might be thinking well why does that matter Centos and Fedora is still open source well we don't care about those at all in business because a lot of times there's little patches or or minor bug fixes that happen on red hat Enterprise Linux that happen Downstream they can't go back upstream and Patch those into any of these other ones Cintas stream or uh Fedora so those patches happen over here in in the business realm that's what we need to know from Red Hat and that is now going to be closed so what does this all mean it means there's gonna be probably tens maybe hundreds of thousands of servers out there that now have to just figure out some kind of alternative I don't know exactly what the install base of Alma Rocky uh maybe even some old Cintas 7 servers hanging out they're kind of end of life now anyways so you probably shouldn't have those um but it definitely is a game changer in everything that's happening in in the Linux business realm today and I have to make this video just to kind of say man it's kind of alarming but also not really that surprising to me when I think of it from a business point of view because Red Hat a lot of times in business I I I'm guilty of this as an I.T or assist admin where we might have used a Centos or or rocky Linux if if I did it today and we might put like monitoring software something that we don't really need to touch a set it and forget it kind of thing and then be like Ah that's cool we don't need to pay for uh the Rel subscription for that because it's is good and we can just use the freebie many businesses do this so ah and that's not a really fault of this admin a lot of times a lot of times that's just budget restraints and we want something stable so I I don't fault this is admins here it's it's more from the back end and this is gonna change things quite a bit so I I think at the end of the day you're either gonna move to a red hat Enterprise subscription or it's gonna be the year of Debian in servers so Debbie is usually not used that much in business I mean it is used but uh you really want something with a lot of support and that's why you use a lot of these rail-based stuff because there's always been support and if things got really hairy you could take uh you know even a rockier Alma and convert that over to a Rel and get support for it uh from red-headed engineers and programmers so with it not being one-to-one bug anymore and it'd be in closed Source that's not going to be able to happen and that's probably rightfully so so I I don't fault them for that uh but it's something that is just really crazy in the business realm right now I'm curious to see what happens in the next week um this affects a lot of different servers and again way bigger news than when Cintas got killed and it moved to centoff's stream and it moved Upstream from Rel no longer a one-to-one bug equivalent that's why they call it Centos stream now and not like Centos 8. so a little history lesson there and I'm just kind of blown away by this and it's gonna affect a lot of sis admins lives right now there's going to be a lot of if you're you're a Linux admin and you do this professionally uh my heart goes out to you if you have any of these systems and we'll just have to wait and see what you know what's Rocky and Alma gonna do they already said they're gonna continue on with this red hat I think you know they're just trying to bring that back in and say hey we're not going to support crap that we don't get paid for and I think that's really why they're doing it this way um but it is a big deal it is a big deal not to be a YouTube alarmist or any of that because I don't make these types of videos but this is a big effing deal so if you're in the business realm pay attention to this it's uh a game changer and a lot of those I think if I had to break fix or just just thinking off the top of my head and you're one of those people that have rocky or Alma um you might be needing to move to like a centaur OS stream and that's a weird upgrade path I don't even know how that would be possible if you're gonna go that route again we'll just have to wait and see how this goes it's not going to break overnight it's not like a Y2K thing you know these These are set it and forget it kind of systems but it's something that will have to be acted on in this next year because you will no longer be getting security and Bug fixes in a one-to-one Rel equivalent and that's going to be a big deal for for many businesses so kind of wild I I never thought I'd see the day Red Hat went closed Source on us uh for the base distro but that looks like what's happened obviously sentos stream and Fedora are still open source they're still publicly available but they are uh just just know they are Upstream meaning there's things that get applied Downstream to Rel that only apply to Rel security and Bug fixes that are a little bit different so it's not really a matter of stability or any of that it's it's just it is Downstream and I don't think we'll ever see another Rel one-to-one distro again what a what a wild time to be alive damn

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Published: Thu Jun 22 2023