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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes (www.redhat.com)

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[–] MrPoopyButthole 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] mo_ztt 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What?

[–] MrPoopyButthole 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/redhat/redhat-images

There are subscription costs built into the VMs on public cloud. Azure gets the money for the compute but a percentage goes to the company maintaining the distro. Its quite a large revenue source.

[–] mo_ztt 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Do you know of any major Linux distribution besides RHEL that charges a subscription fee? I don't.

Edit: I poked around the site a little more. I had quite a bit of trouble sorting out what the comparison was between costs of different Linux distributions, but (a) it looks to me like the cost of Redhat is exactly the same as the cost of Ubuntu (b) it looks like there may be some sort of bundled corporate support as part of the package, for which I'm sure there's a cost (c) their list of which distros to include (Redhat / SUSE / Ubuntu) is quite weird coming from the Linux world. Most providers I'm familiar with default to Debian for servers.

Regardless of that, my question was independent of a support agreement: Do you know of any major Linux distribution besides RHEL that charges a fee and requires an agreement with the manufacturer to use or download their production version?

[–] MrPoopyButthole 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah it requires a little investigation but here is a breakdown:

Ubuntu (Canonical) Free Pro - pay as you go (gives package patches) Pro + Support - pay as you go (SLA)

RHEL (Red Hat Inc) Premium - pay as you go (patches only)

CentOS (Many image providers) Free

Debian (Debian) Free

SLES (Suse) Premium - Pay as you go (patches only)

Oracle Linux (Oracle) Free Support - pay as you go