Re: [tlug] Rocky Linux

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

> *   "Ubuntu Summit 2024 One of the things we didn't expect to see at this
> year's Ubuntu get-together was a chart showing Rocky Linux's dominance...

...in 67 visual effects studios. [1]

Most were probably using Centos, which was the free version of RedHat 
Enterprise. But then RedHat got rid of Centos (a bit like if Ubuntu got 
rid of LTS releases) hoping more companies would then start paying them.

Rocky Linux was created independently to achieve the same goals as 
Centos had. And because it got enough funding it managed to survive.

It kind of represents both what is good (ain't no big company gonna 
control us) and bad about open software. The bad being the denial that 
those big companies are the ones financing open source software 
development. If RedHat go bust, everyone loses. Some of those studios 
would have switched over to RHEL.

Darren

[1]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QWJS1PTvDGr6AliP4ejMzFTZ2WVEl0e-/view

That Register report also badly dropped the ball on reporting accuracy. 
The bar chart on page 4 says that CentOS7 has nearly 50% share of 
_current_ installed distributions.

The pie chart is the _plan_ for what to install on _new_ artist 
workstations.

And unfortunately they switched from actual numbers to percentages. And 
it is not clear what it is a percentage of. (E.g. 6.6% of 67 is 4.422 
studios...)

That pie chart should be banished from the report. So it is sadly ironic 
that it was the one shown at a conference, _and_ the only one picked up 
and reported further. :-(