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SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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Headline doesn't seem to give full picture. From https://www.suse.com/c/suse-liberty-linux/:

>SUSE Liberty Linux is a new technology and support offering that provides customers a unified support experience for managing their heterogeneous IT environments. With SUSE Liberty Linux, you get trusted support with optional proven management tools that are optimized for mixed Linux environments, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and as you would expect openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

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This is good news, I suppose. But why should users trust SUSE to maintain a free RHEL clone for the long term when Red Hat came to the conclusion it was bad business. Once bitten, twice shy.

Suse isn’t owned by a large consulting/marketing firm (IBM). Tech and specifically Linux support is central to their business case.

Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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This is good news, I suppose. But why should users trust SUSE to maintain a free RHEL clone for the long term when Red Hat came to the conclusion it was bad business. Once bitten, twice shy.

Suse isn’t owned by a large consulting/marketing firm (IBM). Tech and specifically Linux support is central to their business case.

[Article author here]

True. Although IBM has sold off a lot of its consulting business, you know.

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-11-03-IBM-Completes-the-Separa...

Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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This is good news, I suppose. But why should users trust SUSE to maintain a free RHEL clone for the long term when Red Hat came to the conclusion it was bad business. Once bitten, twice shy.

Suse isn’t owned by a large consulting/marketing firm (IBM). Tech and specifically Linux support is central to their business case.

SUSE is owned, through various companies, the Wallenberg Family nowadays, isn't it?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Suse isn’t owned by a large consulting/marketing firm (IBM). Tech and specifically Linux support is central to their business case.

SUSE is owned, through various companies, the Wallenberg Family nowadays, isn't it?

EQT, a private holding firm, per google. Private and holding are doing a lot of work in that sentence.
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