Canonical Promotes Ubuntu Pro To General Availability

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Canonical Promotes Ubuntu Pro To General Availability

Canonical is announcing this morning that their Ubuntu Pro subscription service has been promoted from beta to general availability (GA)...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-Ubuntu-Pro-GA

[michaelo2]

> 2,300 packages in the Ubuntu Main repo included in Infra-only, plus an additional 23,000+ packages in the Ubuntu Universe repository for 10 years

This is really interesting compared to, for example, EPEL. But on the other hand, the expectations customers may have around those +23000 packages may cause some troubles.

[Ironmask]

I'm confused about the live patching. Did they remove live-patching from Ubuntu, or does this just mean live-patching is outside of their warrantee?

[RahulSundaram]

> 2,300 packages in the Ubuntu Main repo included in Infra-only, plus an additional 23,000+ packages in the Ubuntu Universe repository for 10 years

This is really interesting compared to, for example, EPEL. But on the other hand, the expectations customers may have around those +23000 packages may cause some troubles.

The difference is that Ubuntu universe mass imports Debian packages and rebuilds them against Ubuntu base. EPEL doesn't do that for Fedora packages. Maintainers have to step up to commit to maintaining it specifically for EPEL. It is considerably more commitment (10 years vs 13 months roughly and dealing with base RHEL dependencies that don't change) and fewer people show up to do it voluntarily.

[rabcor]

Yeah.... Gonna be a hard pass from me, no thanks.

[Danny3]

I wish Debian would try to offer more professional services as it's definitely more trustworthy to use than Ubuntu.

[jKicker]

I wish Debian would try to offer more professional services as it's definitely more trustworthy to use than Ubuntu.

Why is it more trustworthy and how would that make a difference for this offering?

[szymon_g]

Why is it more trustworthy and how would that make a difference for this offering?

BeCaUsE iT's NoT tHe CaNoNiCaL!!!!111

[kpedersen]

BeCaUsE iT's NoT tHe CaNoNiCaL!!!!111

Eliminate IBM/RedHat, Microsoft and Canonical (all large corporations in fact) and instantly the trustworthiness (and lifespan) of a project goes up.

And why wouldn't it? No scheming bean counters. Simples!

[You-]

Eliminate IBM/RedHat, Microsoft and Canonical (all large corporations in fact) and instantly the trustworthiness (and lifespan) of a project goes up.

And why wouldn't it? No scheming bean counters. Simples!

I would suggest it goes down. Why? because no one will be maintaining the software on a professional basis. If the author/maintainer no longer uses it, they are free to move on without breaking any commitments, its their right. But if you are paying Red Hat for that same software, they will need to maintain it.