πŸ‘€InitEnablerπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό196πŸ—¨οΈ165

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Looking at the "statement of work", unless I'm misunderstanding - it's 3 user (workstation?) licenses?

To me, it's more like 3 engineers at NASA are interested in it and got their boss to get them 3 licenses? As opposed to "NASA moves all RHEL licenses to Rocky after Redhat destroys CentOS community"?

Edit: I know nothing of how govournment agencies (and certainly not US ones) work.. I assume all purchases go through some process where they're all made public?

πŸ‘€mrmattyboyπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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Wonder if the timing of this is a coincidence, considering that RedHat just announced they're stopping releasing RHEL sources except to paying customers: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-s...

Link submitted by someone at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36417070

πŸ‘€jablπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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I wonder why they didn't follow Fermilab and CERN and choose AlmaLinux.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33904336

πŸ‘€5e92cb50239222bπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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What I find interesting is all the bureaucracy needed to get 3 licenses for a "Free" RHEL Clone.

I wonder of Rocky got some real $ from NASA ?

πŸ‘€jmclnxπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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What a weird way to spend federal money. I say it's weird because NASA almost certainly has its own internal Linux support paid through overhead in one form or another, and again the incremental cost of adding "developer" support from Red hat is way, way cheaper than Rocky.

Finally, I doubt Rocky's support can perform as well as Red Hat's. No, I'm not talking about the people who talk on the phone when you break something. If you find a bug in a package, will Rocky be able to quickly and effectively upstream the fix, or will Rocky end up maintaining you on a custom patchlevel forever?

I doubt Rocky has the ability to truly fulfill 24/7 support. It's difficult to build a deep bench for support, and nearly impossible to make sure you're keeping up 24/7 capability for other Maintenance Engineering type tasks.

And if none of these reasons are important enough to stop you from paying them, maybe the thing you're doing isn't important enough to warrant paying for support anyway.

πŸ‘€op00toπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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Out of curiosity what do others see as viable Red Hat Linux alternatives?

If I was choosing a server OS today, I personally would probably pick Debian.

πŸ‘€spicyusernameπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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How do I choose between Rocky and Almalinux? Or is it just not a big enough difference to worry about?
πŸ‘€aednicholsπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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Out of curiosity, what makes this notable?
πŸ‘€aardvarkrπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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Wikipedia:

> Rocky Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, which is a privately owned benefit corporation that describes itself as a "self-imposed not-for-profit".

Is this only a structure set up to fund whatever needed to be done to rebrand RHEL? Or does anyone have shares that could be worth significant money?

πŸ‘€neilvπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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The more I think about the RedHat source code restrictions, the more I think this could be the reason. RedHat has mostly tolerated the free rebuilds, but now that one of them is encroaching into providing paid support (RedHat’s bread and butter), that’s a step too far and it could have poisoned the well for everyone.
πŸ‘€orevπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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I don't understand why they don't buy RHEL. Rocky is essentially RHEL. If RHEL isn't supported there is no Rocky.
πŸ‘€tkurakuπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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Again, like large corporations, this doesn’t mean much. NASA is big and diverse, and each facility is unique and mostly independent, with lots of unrelated projects within a facility.
πŸ‘€prplπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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This headline reads backwards to me. While it would be true either way, it seems more intuitive to say "Rocky Enterprise Linux secures contract with NASA"
πŸ‘€Nifty3929πŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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How new is sam.gov?
πŸ‘€activiationπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0