Red Hat hat offenbar sein gesamtes Engineering-Team in China entlassen, da es seiner Meinung nach kein Land mehr ist, dem das Unternehmen Priorität einräumen muss. Der Großteil des Teams wird nach Indien ziehen.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/red_hat_ends_china_engineering/
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.rpm has always been trash. Debian all the way.
I am not surprised. This is almost certainly pressure from the US government that caused this decision. Red Hat is what the US government uses almost exclusively for linux distributions. So, I am sure they didn’t like them having an engineering team in china. They forced Microsoft into doing something similar recently also.
Maybe also an important factor is the Xin-Chuang initiative, which is about non-Western, standalone Chinese IT infrastructure at most of the places, from the hardware (CPUs) up to OS and application software, whenever possible, starting from 2027.
There is a certification process in the critical infrastructure (even in finance), where certain „Western“ software components are disallowed, together with x86 CPUs, and even some non-China hosted Linux OSes are forbidden.
In our area, even MariaDB or Oracle is forbidden, together with Ubuntu, RedHat etc.
Allowed alternatives are like openEuler Linux OS (China hosted), OceanBase RDBMS (China developed), Hygon CPUs (China developed) etc.
Not surprising when your biggest customer is the US government. You can’t serve both sides of a tech cold war forever, eventually you have to pick.