SUSE's $10 Million Gamble: Announced Official RHEL Fork
SUSE, a leading global provider of enterprise open-source solutions, made a significant announcement today. The company revealed its plans to fork Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), a widely used Linux distribution, and develop its own version. This move aims to create a RHEL-compatible distribution that will be accessible to all users without any restrictions. SUSE has committed to investing more than $10 million into this ambitious project over the next few years.
iTWire:
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SUSE says it will fork RHEL source code for use by world+dog
German open source vendor SUSE has said it will invest more than US$10 million (A$14.97 million) to fork the publicly available source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and make it available to world+dog with no restrictions.
Foss Force:
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SUSE Promises to Fork RHEL and Make It Publicly Available
The company that might be Red Hat’s biggest rival when it comes to enterprise Linux, Germany-based SUSE, today announced that it is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the purpose of continuing to make a RHEL-compatable distribution available for those that need or want it.
The company said in a statement that it plans to invest more than $10 million into this project, and that it intends to contribute the project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to the source code.
TechCrunch:
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Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux
A storm is brewing in open-source land that could change the Linux distro landscape
Today, SUSE announced that it is creating a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and that it will develop and maintain an RHEL-compatible distribution. SUSE says that it will invest $10 million into this project over the coming years. One major open source company forking another major open source company’s project is equivalent to going nuclear. But there’s a reason SUSE is doing this now, and that it will likely be championed by many in the open source community. It’s a complicated story.
LWN discussion:
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SUSE to create a fork of RHEL
SUSE has announced that it is getting into the business of creating RHEL clones and investing $10 million in the project.
Hackaday:
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SuSE Take On Red Hat, Forking RHEL
One of the Linux stories of the moment has come from Red Hat, with their ongoing efforts to make accessing the source of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux product a paid-for only process. This has caused consternation and annoyance alike, from the open source community angry at any liberties taken with the GPL, and from the community of RHEL users and customers concerned as to what it might mean for them.
Now a new player has entered the fray in the form of SuSe, who have announced the creation of an RHEL fork with the intention of maintaining a freely-available Red Hat compatible operating system distribution.
It's FOSS News:
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In a Blow to IBM, SUSE is Forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Fresh on the heels of Red Hat's source code lockout, SUSE has decided to undertake something entirely novel.
Over the coming years, they plan to invest over $10 million into an RHEL-compatible distro free of restrictions.
If you did not get the memo, here's what you missed (to get up to speed)...
The Register:
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SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro... again
SUSE is reconsidering the change of course it made at the beginning of last year: it is launching its own RHEL-compatible distro, or as it puts it, a fork of RHEL.
The company's recently appointed CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen has made his first big announcement: that the German enterprise Linux vendor will launch its own Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distro soon.
In the announcement, a quote from Linux pro Greg Kurtzer reveals with whom SUSE is working: Kurtzer is the founder and CEO of CIQ, the company that sponsors Rocky Linux. The announcement comes soon after the claims from the Rocky Linux project that it has found a way around the new restrictions on Red Hat sharing the RHEL source code. It also, of course, follows even more closely upon Oracle's chutzpah-laden article on this subject.
Linux Magazine:
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SUSE Goes for the Fork after Red Hat's RHEL Announcement
SUSE, the company behind Rancher and SUSE Enterprise Linux, has announced it will invest $10 million to fork publicly available Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and develop a RHEL-compatible distribution.
Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, CEO of SUSE, says, "For decades, collaboration and shared success have been the building blocks of our open-source community. We have a responsibility to defend these values."
He then speaks to the investment SUSE has committed to this effort by saying, "This investment will preserve the flow of innovation for years to come and ensures that customers and community alike are not subjected to vendor lock-in and have genuine choice tomorrow as well as today.”
This all started when Red Hat declared that CentOS Stream would be the sole repository for public RHEL source code. However, with CentOS Stream being a rolling release distribution, it's not exactly suitable for business needs.
Linuxiac:
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SUSE Gets Momentum, Fork Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Who would have expected at the beginning of the year that this summer would be so “hot” for the open-source community?
But after Red Hat, to eliminate the competition in the face of Alma and Rocky, announced last month the limiting of access to their source code, the news hasn’t stopped pouring in.
Two weeks ago, SUSE was the first company to disagree with Red Hat’s decision publicly. Now, they come out with unexpected news that is literally about to shake the Linux world, with the potential to redraw the map of the Enterprise Linux segment.
ZDNet:
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SUSE will fork Red Hat Enterprise Linux
First came AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux. Then Oracle. Now SUSE is coming after Red Hat for changing the rules on RHEL source code. What's next? Microsoft RHEL!?