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Link submitted by someone at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36417070
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I wonder of Rocky got some real $ from NASA ?
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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.
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If I was choosing a server OS today, I personally would probably pick Debian.
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> 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?
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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?