More about Red Hat's decision to make CentOS Stream the primary repository for RHEL sources.

Some mix of wrong and right, the exact proportions of which I’ll leave as an exercise to the reader.

  • Carly™@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    More recently, we have determined that there isn’t value in having a downstream rebuilder.

    Alright, well, there it is in plain English. They’re killing downstream clones like Rocky, Alma, etc.

    I have to wonder how this is going to affect software which officially only supports (insert RHEL clone here). I use DaVinci Resolve for work every day, historically they’ve only supported CentOS, and just recently they started supporting Rocky as well. VFX isn’t my wheelhouse, but I know the situation is basically the same for those programs as well.

    • UrbenLegend@lemmy.mlEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      I am actually wondering whether they’ll start considering a Flatpak version of Resolve. Seems like Blackmagic is reluctant to support anything other than RHEL and CentOS, and RedHat seems to be moving towards Flatpak anyways, given their recent move to stop shipping LibreOffice.

    • ahoyboyhoy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Resolve Studio has worked well for me on Pop!_OS with NVIDIA GPU and many others have success with Ubuntu, Debian, etc. Only hiccups are related to decklink drivers and very recent kernels, but the BMD Linux forum typically has patches posted before I have problems.

    • twitterfluechtling@lemmy.pathoris.deEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      They’re killing downstream clones like Rocky, Alma, etc

      Luckily I found them all hard to use for the desktop anyway, usually way too outdated. Would be interesting to know if and how this will affect Fedora, which is the upstream distribution and much better suited for the desktop for now.

      • americanwaste@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        You aren’t the primary customer for RHEL, or user here they’re trying to get money from. Businesses run this primarily on servers and have used CentOS historically (now Rocky/Alma) to help expand beyond the RHEL they pay for, if they pay for it. They think businesses will pay up for RHEL now, rather than just move to Amazon Linux or another distro entirely like Debian.

        Not sure how many desktop customers RHEL has to he honest. Don’t know of any businesses of scale that they would buy RHEL that use Linux on the desktop