LUXEMBOURG, July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Today SUSE, the company behind Rancher, NeuVector and SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) and a world leader in open source enterprise solutions, announced that it is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) publicly available and will develop and maintain a RHEL-compliant distribution available to everyone. Without restrictions. Over the next few years, SUSE plans to invest more than $10 million in this project.
Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, CEO of SUSE, commented, “For decades, collaboration and shared success have been the building blocks of our open source community. We have a responsibility to uphold these values. This investment will preserve the flow of innovation in for years to come and will ensure that customers and the community are not subject to vendor lock-in and have genuine choice tomorrow and today.”
SUSE remains fully committed to investing in its highly regarded Linux solutions, such as SLE and openSUSE, which are trusted by countless satisfied enterprise customers and the community. At the same time, it recognizes that companies and the open source community deserve choice and freedom from vendor lock-in. SUSE has a long history of empowering and supporting users with mixed Linux environments.
SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a durable and long-term compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide continued free access to alternative source code.
“This collaborative effort demonstrates SUSE’s deep-rooted commitment to fostering innovation and community-driven development, and reinforces the core values of open source software. We invite the community to actively participate and collaborate to shape the future of this essential software,” said Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo, SUSE director of technology and products. “We strongly believe that this new RHEL-compliant Linux distribution, together with the SUSE portfolio, will help the community and customers navigate unprecedented advances in enterprise Linux, cloud computing, containerization, edge, AI/ML, and other emerging technologies.
“The Linux enterprise community requires standardization, stability, and consistency,” said Gregory Kurtzer, CEO of CIQ and founder of Rocky Linux. “CIQ provides stability to our partners, customers, and community by building a broad coalition of like-minded companies, organizations, and individuals. SUSE has embodied the core principles and spirit of open source; CIQ is delighted to collaborate with SUSE in advancing in an open enterprise Linux standard”.
To read more about how this strengthens Liberty Linux and how to get involved, go here.
About SUSESUSE is a world leader in innovative, reliable, and secure enterprise-grade open source solutions, trusted by more than 60% of Fortune 500 companies to power their mission-critical workloads. We specialize in business-critical Linux, enterprise container management, and edge solutions, and we collaborate with partners and communities to empower our customers to innovate everywhere from the data center to the cloud, to the edge, and beyond.
SUSE brings the “open” back to open source, giving customers the ability to meet innovation challenges today and the freedom to develop their strategy and solutions tomorrow. The company employs more than 2,000 people worldwide. SUSE is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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