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by mugsie 3120 days ago
Separate projects like this is how a lot of these "RHEL Enterprise $FOO" are actually made.

RedHat / Suse / Ubuntu / $Vendor take the upstream project, tidy it a bit, package it, get it integrated in their ecosystem, and add an easy installer.

Having it in a vendor neutral foundation means that all the vendors can colaborate, and not have one group with a massive advantage or complete control over a roadmap.
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bonzini 3120 days ago
There are hundreds of engineers working on RHEL (disclaimer, that includes me), so it's not as simple as you put it...
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mugsie 3119 days ago
No, it is not - I over simplified the process a lot. (/me used to work in a vendor, and in a different large Linux distro :) )

I didn't mean to undermine the work that goes into turning a project like this, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry etc into a real product that users can download and install on random hardware in random configurations, and get a working system - it is a ton of work, and is massively important for getting actual users to install what are very complex distributed systems.

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