<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>jsiepkes</author><text>&amp;gt; Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, CEO of SUSE, said,&lt;p&gt;According to LinkedIn Dirk-Peter started at Suse 3 months ago as CEO and worked for Red Hat for 18 years and was a Senior VP at Red Hat.&lt;p&gt;I think this move of Suse could be a credible threat to IBM &amp;#x2F; Red Hat&amp;#x27;s RHEL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teleforce</author><text>It seems this Dirk-Peter guy is a long time Red Hat guy and he probably knows Red Hat Linux inside out.&lt;p&gt;This can be 2nd most important Linux distro announcement for the good of the community by a company after Canonical&amp;#x27;s announcement of Ubuntu back in 2004, but time will tell if this going to take-off by spinning a new generic enterprise Linux distro based on RHEL.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly the last Red Hat for community (most popular at the time) is Red Hat 9 before it gone fully enterprise by launching Fedora back in 2004. Coincidentally Ubuntu was launched around the same time (now most popular Linux distro). Probably the last Red Hat Enterprise is RHEL 9 as we know it.</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>jsiepkes</author><text>&amp;gt; Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, CEO of SUSE, said,&lt;p&gt;According to LinkedIn Dirk-Peter started at Suse 3 months ago as CEO and worked for Red Hat for 18 years and was a Senior VP at Red Hat.&lt;p&gt;I think this move of Suse could be a credible threat to IBM &amp;#x2F; Red Hat&amp;#x27;s RHEL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonzini</author><text>They&amp;#x27;re admitting that the Linux that enterprise people want is RHEL (or RHEL-based) and not SLES.&lt;p&gt;Also, if CIQ follows them and SUSE bases this on CentOS Stream (at least for RHEL9; CentOS Stream 8 is admittedly a bit messy), this is exactly what Red Hat was hoping to achieve.</text></comment>