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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 05:29:16 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   After Red Hat announced they would no longer be providing the general public with exact sources for RHEL packages, first Oracle reaffirmed their commitment to source releases for their RHEL-compatible distro, and now, somewhat surprisingly, independent vendor SuSE says they will start maintaining a RHEL-compatible distro too.

   suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-C…

   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 07:03:04 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      Great overview of the RHEL RPMS saga so far, from the announcement to the responses from the other vendors:

      mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1106… @nixCraft 🐧

   2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 14:38:41 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @clacke Since I first heard this RHEL news, I have wondered whether IBM Red Hat's aim was to disarm Oracle (at one point, Oracle Unbreakable Linux was a downstream distro).
      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 20:57:02 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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         @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} It will not so much disarm Oracle, as it will cost them a couple of million per year to work around, while gaining them credibility.