The Impetus to Upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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Jeff Smith: Red Hat killed CentOS 8 and then Rocky Linux 9. He says the company is now offering free developer licenses, but he doesn't want to use them. If people like him sell services for Ansible, but don't use Ansible automation platform, "Am I the freeloader? It's a serious question"Smith: Apple maintainers are needing to get special licenses to try to get so their package is built before Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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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