<story><title>Removing official support for Red Hat enterprise Linux</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/removing-official-support-red-hat-enterprise-linux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jitl</author><text>I’ve never heard of the author before so I poked around their GitHub to understand if this is significant. Their account has many repos of Ansible roles, some with hundreds of stars like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;geerlingguy&amp;#x2F;ansible-role-mysql&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;geerlingguy&amp;#x2F;ansible-role-mysql&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’ve never used Ansible, can someone familiar with it tell us if this person is a cornerstone of the ecosystem or something?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qmarchi</author><text>Jeff is both an open-source contributor, as well as a fairly popular YouTuber[1]. His more popular repositories are more beginner friendly and not supporting RHEL means that it&amp;#x27;s unlikely that new users may end up choosing it as their Distro-of-choice.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;jeffgeerling&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;jeffgeerling&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Removing official support for Red Hat enterprise Linux</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/removing-official-support-red-hat-enterprise-linux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jitl</author><text>I’ve never heard of the author before so I poked around their GitHub to understand if this is significant. Their account has many repos of Ansible roles, some with hundreds of stars like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;geerlingguy&amp;#x2F;ansible-role-mysql&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;geerlingguy&amp;#x2F;ansible-role-mysql&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’ve never used Ansible, can someone familiar with it tell us if this person is a cornerstone of the ecosystem or something?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>To me, Jeff Geerling is the Raspberry Pi guy, since he pushes them in all kinds of crazy ways, like trying to get a high-end GPU working on a Pi.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jeffgeerling.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;external-graphics-cards-work-on-raspberry-pi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jeffgeerling.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;external-graphics-car...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>