Suse has announc3ed they are forking RHEL
They are partnering with rocky to make this work…i know resources are limited but this might be something to consider adding to your grade A list eventually…
My take on this situation:
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I have 2 email servers that have been running on OpenSUSE Leap Server for a couple years now.
When CentOS announced the discontinue of stable releases, I had to get rid of it ASAP.
OpenSUSE worked out of the box and never had any issues with it as of this date.
I have a LAMP running on my home lab server with Webmin RPM and it works great on SUSE.
Same as you, our webhosting servers run on Ubuntu and always had since Ubuntu 18.
I’ve been sort of re-considering our neglect of SUSE recently. But, supporting yet another distro, and yet another package manager (which was absolute chaos on SUSE for several years, they ran through multiple different and awful package management tools) was costing too much time for almost no paying customers.
If SUSE, Rocky, Alma (and, at a whisper, Oracle) all gang up and work together to build a cross-compatible pile of enterprise Linux distros, it seems like we can be pretty confident it’ll be well-maintained. And, I’m more comfortable suggesting people get enterprise support from SUSE than from Oracle, just based on their history.
In short: If SUSE makes an EL that is “bug-compatible” with Rocky/Alma (and RHEL), then it should be very easy for us to support it.
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Let’s see what SUSE comes up with. Probably easier to support as mentioned.
Alma announced that they are no longer bug compatible though.
Yeah, I think the rebuilds will all diverge from RHEL a little, but it’s shaping up like the rebel alliance distros will all be pulling patches from each other, just not from RHEL, directly. So…they’ll all almost certainly be bug-compatible with each other, but occasionally less so with RHEL. Which is an interesting position for Red Hat to put themselves in.
We develop and test the most against the free variants, because our users mostly use the free variants. In the end, it seems like RHEL will lose it’s title as the de facto standard enterprise Linux, because it’ll no longer be the gold standard for EL-compatible distro. Though, I guess they could pull patches from the others, that’s never been their model, so it’s likely they’ll trail behind on that. I think the perception in the market will eventually be that the EL community distros are the safest choice. But, we’ll see…
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well the rebulders are now diverging…as they have to.
alma wll be abi but not otherwise tracking rhel
rocky says they have a way to be both…i doubt it
suse is forking rhel. they will most likely go the alma way…but who knows their announcement was a bit short on details
orcale is saying…come to use and make us the the enterprise linux.
so for the virt team…trying tu support the rebuilders is about to become quite a bit more work. Just a thought. obviously keep supporting the current crop of distros(unless they deviate too far) but for next year i would settle on debian, and ubuntu as grade A. And then figure out by just watching the others as to if they stay grade a. as the rhel 10 is going to be something none of these folks have…right now everything is too far up in the air now as who knows if the current crop of EL folks can even maintain stability in terms of ABI(bug for bug is going to be nearly…if not totally impossible). Right n ow the free EL is done…at least basing it ofr RHEL. Now it’s going to be diverging. and IMO for webhosting stability is mot important…right now you wll get that with debian or ubuntu LTS
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