From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-10-13, David Wade  wrote:   
   > On 13/10/2025 11:57, Chris Townley wrote:   
   >> On 13/10/2025 02:07, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> Seeing a good long term business for selling proprietary Unix   
   >>> for x86-64 require a very good imagination.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Red Hat do well out of it, although not quite propriety, not quite open   
   >> source...   
   >>   
   >>   
   > RedHat have worked hard to make it impossible to use their Linux without   
   > paying. In addition they do well because in order to comply with many   
   > security policies you need supported software.   
   >   
   > So unless you are the French Gendarmerie, who have their own Linux   
   > Distro, you need to pay RedHat for support. Its not cheap   
   >   
      
   Have a look at Oracle Linux which is a RHEL rebuild with some Oracle   
   enhancements (such as an optional custom kernel). Unlike the rest of   
   Oracle, there are no tricks (so far) and patches flow at regular   
   intervals. Oracle also make patches available for previous versions   
   of Oracle Linux as well.   
      
   The most annoying thing about RHEL these days is that its supposed to   
   be an _Enterprise_ operating system which has traditionally meant   
   applications being able to maintain backwards compatibility with   
   previous versions. Yet, RedHat seem to change things around at will.   
      
   BTW, RHEL 10 appears to have completely dropped 32-bit application   
   support (this is different from RHEL itself having a 32-bit RHEL   
   version, which got dropped around RHEL 7).   
      
   If true, this means all your 32-bit legacy applications will stop   
   working on RHEL 10. Goodness knows what they were thinking when   
   they did that.   
      
   Simon.   
      
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   Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
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