For example Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Enterprise Linux.

I’m considering switching to RHEL, to get a “professional” Linux, since it’s free if you register an account, but is it worth it?
Is the experience very different from Fedora?

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    RHEL will also have these types of [perquisites]

    Yeah. Yum upgrade . The work that goes into a reliably safe, brain-dead, boring update process with a rollback and by-the-checksum validation of installed product is the most unsung part of the distro.

    And people really should value the ability to answer

    • are we safe from CVE-xxxx-yyyyy? (it’s in the changelog and often an upgrade command like yum update --cve <CVE-ID> will settle it)
    • how do we know we installed all of that and it’s valid? (rpm -V some-RPM)

    And ‘how do we know’ is an amazingly powerful question that’s easy to answer on EL and hard as heck to answer on debs or anything with flatpak/snap/pyp/npm nonsense.