Everyone is getting jerked around by IBM and now Oracle adding to the drama
Meanwhile my servers are stable and debian development keeps quietly chugging along with minimal noise
Just wanted to say how much i love the debian project and all the contributors
People should recommend debian more
IBM did no favors here. We pay for Red Hat support on front facing stuff, but used Scientific Linux and then CentOS for over a decade on our backend stuff.
We have already been testing Ubuntu since the CentOS Stream thing caught us off guard. Now with the attacks on downstream players, we will not be paying for equivalent Red Hat licenses. We can’t afford it.
Funding is down. The global economy has been in a downturn for a while, and now the pandemic “free money” boost is done. Our budgets are shrinking.
IBM decided to squeeze their clients at the wrong time. It was a mistake. We are looking outside RHEL and its derivatives for the first time in over 2 decades.
As alternative to the RHEL and its clones maybe. But there is no alternative to Fedora in Debian (with exception to Ubuntu and derivatives) family, even Sid consists from outdated packages.
You do know that you can get more up to date packages from other sources?
I get nginx from them and PHP from an ex deb dev
Plus everything is in containers now so you can pull or build what you like
Flatpak, even if you want to stay on Fedora you can’t run away from the future they’re pushing.