Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The Future of Upstream Rebuild

Mike McGrath joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss the changes Red Hat is making in how they make their source code available.

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00:50 Arch Keyring Fix - Bloominstrong

• at the bottom of /etc/pacman.conf
• Include "SigLevel = Optional TrustAll" under core and extra
• Update the keyring -Sy archlinux-keyring
• Confirm each new key
• Remove "SigLevel = Optional TrustALL"
• run pacman -Syu

03:05 Church Streaming - John

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• Ask Noah Show Ep 341
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17:58 News Wire

• The linux 6.4 kernel has been released
• Intel's new ARC driver in Linux boosts gaming performance by 11%

• The Exodia OS team has recently updated their customized arch-based distro for security testing

• Releases

  • Proxmox Virtual Environment 8
  • Peazip 9.3
  • Darktable 4.4
  • Ardour 7.5
  • Firewalld 2.0

• Industry News

  • GitLab Expands its Open Source Partner Community With the Addition of The Open Group

• Security News

  • New Linux based IOT attack campaign

• AI News

  • Databricks has agreed to buy MosaicML
  • Robin AI - Github PR reviewer

• Hardware News

  • Dingo - A fully Open Source Robot Dog

19:55 Red Hat Interview

• Mike McGrath - Vice President of Core Platforms Engineering
• Blog Post 1
• Reaction was unexpected, swift, and immediate
• Conviction to the GPL
• Source code is still available
• Surprised more people didn't look at CentOS Stream
• Blog Post 2
• Red Hat no longer finds value in "re-builders"
• Free as in freedom vs free as in beer
• Standing on the shoulders of giants
• Red Hat welcome's competition and contribution
• Why not start with the second blog post's message?
• Timing of the change
• Meeting the GPL requirements
• Products vs Projects
• When did the thought of this start?
• CentOS Stream
• Things being done in bad faith
• Threat to the open source business model
• Red Hat has worked hard to make RHEL available for free
• What about people using downstream rebuilds in CI pipelines?
• No cost RHEL for open source projects (ROSI)
• Does Red Hat want to be the "bottom rung of the ladder"?
• IBM had zero input
• CentOS Stream is critical for RHEL
• What is Red Hat selling when they sell RHEL?
• What impact will this have on the broader ecosystem?

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