I am SUSE-curious after all the drama and lost trust with RedHat and IBM but any partnership with Oracle makes me uncomfortable.
"United Linux was an attempt by a consortium of Linux distributors to create a common base distribution for enterprise use, so as to minimize duplication of engineering effort and form an effective competitor to Red Hat. The founding members of United Linux were SUSE, Turbolinux, Conectiva (now merged with MandrakeSoft to form Mandriva) and Caldera International (later renamed to The SCO Group). The consortium was announced on May 30, 2002. The end of the project was announced on January 22, 2004."
It never really worked from a business perspective but Caldera becoming faux-SCO was pretty much the final straw.
why not donating a certain amount of money to some distros instead? there's an expected level of entitlement when it money's involved.
> they only have annual subscription
You are not buying the software. You cannot buy the software. All you can buy is a support subscription. That is what RH sells, not software.
and the chance to scream at their customer service. /j
I can tell you that even inside the company, everyone I knew who had the beginning of a clue ran Fedora. Only those with zero tech knowledge and who didn't want to learn ran RHEL... and they get it for free, obvs.
Probably some RH folk will now pop up to tell me I am totally wrong and it's all changed. That is 100% normal. You can ignore them. I do. ;-)
> SELF-SUPPORT (1 YEAR)
> Does not include Red Hat customer support.
> Starting at US$179
> SELF-SUPPORT (1 YEAR)
> Does not include Red Hat customer support.
> Total US$349There is more to the sub than getting someone on the phone.
Updates are probably the #1 thing.
Secondly, "support" means things like "access to full documentation" and "access to source code".