I’m curious about what you think on how it will affect the Linux community and distros (especially RHEL based distros like Fedora or Rocky).
I’m curious about what you think on how it will affect the Linux community and distros (especially RHEL based distros like Fedora or Rocky).
People use rocky/centos because they don’t want to deal with the hassles of licensing while also keeping the door open to an upgrade to RHEL if needed. I think this will be a net positive for Debian and Debian-based distros thanks to enterprise infra switching to Ubuntu which offers this (free use and an upgrade path to full compliance/commercial support.
Them closing up completely undermines their UVP.
Doesn’t Canonical hold the updates (also security ones) for days if you don’t have the “pro” license?
Nope. Even my personal Ubuntu VMs get updates in a fairly timely manner (I monitor the usual vulnerability and package update feeds and I haven’t seen any kinds of delays).