<story><title>SUSE is forking RHEL</title><url>https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silisili</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m continually baffled that so many companies follow RHEL compatibility to this day.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years. Admining as a profession for at least a quarter of that.  20 years ago, it made a ton of sense.  Today, less so.&lt;p&gt;The &amp;#x27;stable version but we backport patches&amp;#x27; mantra doesn&amp;#x27;t make any sense today.  I can&amp;#x27;t even describe how many things that have broken that you can&amp;#x27;t even find an answer for because it was some RH specific patch.&lt;p&gt;Between Debian, Nix, Arch, and others, I can&amp;#x27;t figure out why RHEL compat is so desirable.  I&amp;#x27;ll go as far as to say that my Arch boxes have been far more predictable than my RHEL boxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freeone3000</author><text>&amp;gt; I can&amp;#x27;t figure out why RHEL compat is so desirable.&lt;p&gt;Hey, here’s a comprehensive guide complete with commands, expected outcomes, and side effects of each command for setting up a Windows Domain using an RHEL domain controller: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;access.redhat.com&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;red_hat_single_sign-on&amp;#x2F;7.5&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;server_administration_guide&amp;#x2F;identity_broker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;access.redhat.com&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;red_hat_single...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh, that’s for 7.5? One that’s 15 years old and no longer under standard support? It still works! Wait, but you’re a new customer. Sorry, here’s the one for 9: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;access.redhat.com&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;red_hat_enterprise_linux&amp;#x2F;9&amp;#x2F;html-single&amp;#x2F;planning_identity_management&amp;#x2F;index&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;access.redhat.com&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;red_hat_enterp...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is like this for &lt;i&gt;everything&lt;/i&gt;. The documentation is clear, concise, comprehensive, complete, and &lt;i&gt;versioned&lt;/i&gt;. This is what being RHEL compatible gets you.</text></comment>
<story><title>SUSE is forking RHEL</title><url>https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silisili</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m continually baffled that so many companies follow RHEL compatibility to this day.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years. Admining as a profession for at least a quarter of that.  20 years ago, it made a ton of sense.  Today, less so.&lt;p&gt;The &amp;#x27;stable version but we backport patches&amp;#x27; mantra doesn&amp;#x27;t make any sense today.  I can&amp;#x27;t even describe how many things that have broken that you can&amp;#x27;t even find an answer for because it was some RH specific patch.&lt;p&gt;Between Debian, Nix, Arch, and others, I can&amp;#x27;t figure out why RHEL compat is so desirable.  I&amp;#x27;ll go as far as to say that my Arch boxes have been far more predictable than my RHEL boxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bandrami</author><text>Our contract with the Air Force required that we document guarantees from every &lt;i&gt;parts&lt;/i&gt; vendor for the servers we built for them that they would keep making those parts for at least a decade. They also demanded RHEL exclusively. It&amp;#x27;s a great example of how extreme stability is more important than any other question in a lot of business decisions.</text></comment>