That's helped to keep it going, but once IBM makes RHEL inaccessible to enthusiasts, the decline of RHEL in the marketplace will surely follow.To put it bluntly, we know more about the curvature of Earth than almost any other topic in the realm of physical science. The combination of lower price, widespread expertise, and commercial support from Linux vendors (especially Red Hat) circa 2000 is what marked the beginning of the end for proprietary UNIX.Īnd even when Red Hat Linux gave way to RHEL, it was still far less expensive than what the legacy UNIX vendors offered, plus clones such as Whitebox Enterprise Linux or CentOS were readily available for people to keep their RHEL skills current at home. Eventually, these people began to question the price/performance of proprietary UNIX and hardware for their projects at work. Not many could justify a Sun Ultra 1 or SGI Indigo for their homelab, but they could download Red Hat Linux for free and install it on an old PC. And that happened in large part because Red Hat Linux was accessible to tech enthusiasts. > It's popular in enterprise environments because it was popular in enterprises back in the day.Īnd so were Solaris and IRIX and HP/UX, until they weren't. In the long run, this means that RHEL will be less like other Linux distributions and more like AIX or Solaris. EPEL will shrink and only have software that big businesses, governments, and similar organizations need. Most users and developers won't use RHEL or develop software against it because RHEL's use is restricted to paying customers. Some businesses and governments will continue to use RHEL for the time being, but most users have other Linux distributions to choose from. This decision restricts RHEL so that it is effectively closed source. This decision is good for Red Hat's bottom line, but bad for the RHEL ecosystem long term. "The decision that Red Hat has taken, does make sense as a business. * Universities/IT Courses will also switch to replacements like Ubuntu or openSUSE instead of dabbling between RHEL clones, CentOS Stream, and Fedora." * New users will start considering Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE or something else which is there to stay. * Many customers and professionals helping with enterprise deployments will consider abandoning RHEL and not supporting it.
"If Red Hat continues to cause trouble for RHEL clones, here's what you can expect:
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