Doesn't this basically straight up kill distributions like Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, Alma Linux etc.?
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Which is just a good thing. Fragmentation has gone way too wide just to confuse the first-time users. Less projects with more working hands leads to a better solution.
The mobile linux is silly as well. 3 separate projects while none is ready. Still they all flood the aur with mobile apps.
Why there must be Cinnamon, XFCE and LxQt while they all looks 100% the same for end-user, but none supports Wayland, VRF or HDR? Those are standards which attracts first-time users than never-ending and confusing comparison between distros and DE's.
Before we get too reactionary here, it could make sense to have people focus on the CentOS stream codebase for upstream dev, instead of Redhat having to manage upstreamed code targeting all the different releases of RHEL no?
And can't Rocky Linux and Alma Linux just simply get source code via the partner program? Or does this change prevent them from doing so? You'd think that Redhat would want projects like Rocky and Alma around as a taste-testing lure for RHEL, considering that Redhat makes their money on support rather than RHEL itself.
RedHat already has no-cost RHEL licenses. The disadvantage is that it's necessary to create a developer account, and one account only supports 16 devices.