The Joy of Maintaining Debian Support

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"I'm not going to run Fedora for any of my servers. I'll run it for a workstation, but not servers," he says. "It's production to you, man. It's production to me, right? When somebody can run it, it might be more stable in Fedora." He doesn't just want to cut them off like Red Hat likes doing. If it breaks and it's like, oh my gosh, I have to re-architect this for Red Hat 10, I'm gonna drop the support at that point.

Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it.

Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as Jeff Geerling, so we invited him on the show to discuss.

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