The only "enterprise" feature of RHEL is Red Hat support.
There is nothing to standardise. If anything we need more commercially backed distributions to tear down the monoculture.
There is nothing to standardise. If anything we need more commercially backed distributions to tear down the monoculture.
Two shining examples are the removal of older SAS controllers in the kernels of newer versions, and the fate of btrfs.
OpenELA could easily grow in influence to a point where rhel will lose customers if they try it again.
It will be interesting if such decisions push effective control of rhel to OpenELA. It could easily happen.
The SAS controllers may be a similar thing, maybe they don't have the hardware anymore to regression test against.
The first thing to do with a rhel install to restore complete functionality is to remove the stock kernel.
With extreme prejudice.
The two are not contradictory. Fedora's btrfs functionality can absolutely be exceptional - nothing about that means that Red Hat has engineers working on or able to effectively support it.
Disclaimer: I am an ex-Red Hat employee, though I was nowhere near RHEL.
Conversely, there is no value in the limitations imposed upon rhel. OpenELA gives us a voice in letting them go.
incidentally, i never had a chance to figure out what the big deal was with the centos stream change, because i was already forced to switch to debian because btrfs was removed from the centos kernel.
Funny!
At least Canonical/Ubuntu enterprise support stumbles into a solution and helps out.
It's been a while, but 5 years ago I worked for a company with a Red Hat support contract, and we found them incredibly helpful. Everyone we spoke to had deep Linux knowledge, and their team solved issues and gave us real worldn advice much faster and better than any vendor. I'd be sad if that's no longer true.
The flip side of the coin that I have seen is that some customers will rely heavily on redhat to do basic admin work that a system admin would/should be doing. Effectively taking a job with legal liability for work provided.
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We dumped support. We are paying enough for the database as it is.