Kind of finally. SuSE https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/
So… I think this is kind of the worst case scenario re SuSE - an actual fork. But Oracle kind of hints at that, and Amazon already dropped a RHEL compatible AWS Linux for sort of a Fedora Server?
Obviously none of this is great, but would anyone really want Oracle leading a RHEL “close as possible” rebuild? I don’t know anyone is going to downstream them.
SuSE is even weirder, as I understand it, SLE/OpenSuSE is a fork from decades ago, or at least also uses RPM? I can’t imagine they get any value from trying to make a RHEL fork really… Why not push SLE? All very confusing, that’s for sure.
I think this is great! RHEL has a huge community and it is such a downer for Linux what IBM decided to do. SUSE is quite big in Europe and I think such a move may be able to preserve that community. At least keep it unified outside of a stupid corporation. SUSE will also probably get more people moving to their distro, not just their RHEL.
I know I want to try it out now. I didn’t even know Rancher was from them.
I’m willing to give the other offerings a chance. If RHEL wants to abandon the community and become “just another software company”, then I’m happy to treat them as such. I’ll entertain the market finding where the new standard can be.