Question: Unless your an enterprise or certifying software for an enterprise why do people use RHEL? There are just so many other options without the drama.
I used to use it because they backport secruity patches for software that the official dev team has abandoned - sometimes extending how long you can use that software by several years which is really nice peace of mind. It means I can upgrade on my own schedule, instead of on someone else’s schedule.
RHEL clones like centos, rocky, and alma were (are?) really popular Debian/Ubuntu alternatives for infrastructure. Even Amazon Linux was based on RHEL, and will now move to a mix of centos stream and fedora.
So, it’s quite likely a whole lot of companies are running RHEL clone based docker containers, on a RHEL based AWS instance. That’s a lot of possible RHEL licences that IBM wanted to grab.
Question: Unless your an enterprise or certifying software for an enterprise why do people use RHEL? There are just so many other options without the drama.
I used to use it because they backport secruity patches for software that the official dev team has abandoned - sometimes extending how long you can use that software by several years which is really nice peace of mind. It means I can upgrade on my own schedule, instead of on someone else’s schedule.
I don’t use RHEL anymore.
RHEL clones like centos, rocky, and alma were (are?) really popular Debian/Ubuntu alternatives for infrastructure. Even Amazon Linux was based on RHEL, and will now move to a mix of centos stream and fedora.
So, it’s quite likely a whole lot of companies are running RHEL clone based docker containers, on a RHEL based AWS instance. That’s a lot of possible RHEL licences that IBM wanted to grab.