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TBF if I were to start a company today i would never choose a RHEL-based distro over a Debian-based one. As a matter of fact almost all startups are already on Ubuntu... To my perspective playing corporate games with the open source community have hurt the public image of "stability" of RHEL-based distros. (Obviously Rocky and Alma have no fault on this)

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> As a matter of fact almost all startups are already on Ubuntu... To my perspective playing corporate games with the open source community ...

"Canonical Ltd.[4] is a UK-based privately held computer software company founded and funded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth" [0]

Lol, Canonical is as corporate as they go. I think using Ubuntu is a dumb choice. Canonical is unpredictable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)

Yeah, IMHO Debian feels much more dependable.

Or Rocky for RPM diehards :)

If one were an RPM diehard, then why not openSUSE?

Good question. I saw the CentOS drama unfolding and Rocky was pitched as a replacement. They held the door so far :) (Hodor from Game of Thrones)

“Rocky mirrors RHEL exactly, aiming to be a bug for bug compatible release with RHEL itself.”

Is openSUSE like this?

It is not. openSUSE is a very different distro, though it does use RPM packages.

SuSE Liberty Linux is, I believe: https://www.suse.com/products/suse-liberty-linux/

No; the distinction is precisely if you want an RPM distro (which OpenSUSE is) or a RHEL-like distro (which it isn't).

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