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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).

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Introducing image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (www.redhat.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The tl;dr is: pretty much Silverblue for RHEL

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Image mode builds on the success of open source projects such as bootc

I always think its icky when companies advertise open source projects in their propriety closed source one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

bootc is a RH open source project…

And RHEL is hardly closed source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

RedHat source is accessible to registered red hat users. That is NOT open source. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I don’t like the way they handle access to it, but yes it is largely made up of GPL code, is regularly redestributed and modified, see Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I always think its icky when companies advertise open source projects in their propriety closed source one.

Agreed 100%. So it's good that that's not what they're doing.