SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment | SUSE
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Investment reinforces SUSE’s commitment to innovate and support SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions and related open source projects  SUSE plans to contribute its code to an open source foundation

TLDR: SUSE plans on investing $10+ million over the next several years on developing a free binary compatible RHEL fork.

They expect and encourage community input during the development.

SUSE will also continue maintaining SUSE Linux Enterprise, naturally.

  • carzian
    21·
    1 year ago

    SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.

    Sounds like they’re spinning this off to a separate legal entity which won’t be profit driven. I’m not saying don’t be cautious, but it looks like they’re taking appropriate steps to work with the community.

    • Fuck Yankies
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think I’m going to try Aeon as my daily driver, even though zypper is laborious as hell. Let’s see how long I last.