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Hi,
Just for everyone's information, I will close this Idea as implemented since we fulfill the purpose of providing good secure and stable free open source alternatives (Debian and OpenSUSE).
With your permission, I'll change the tittle to "Debian/Ubuntu" to reflect this.
For other new features included in this latest release, please see What's New in TIBCO Spotfire® 11.6.
Hi Miguel ,
Glad to know. Support for Debian is good enough for my customer!
Thanks.
Hi Wei,
We added support for Debian 11, 10 and openSUSE 15 in Spotfire 11.6.
Debian has a well-deserved reputation as a rock-solid and secure distro for production environments. Debian is a massive community-run distro. Debian is the base for many of the most used distributions (as Ubuntu) and also, the distro used as base layer for most of the official container images out there.
Do you think you still require Ubuntu support?
Hi Sukesh,
Yes. I am aware of Rocky Linux, Alma Linux and others.
It is true that CentOS is not longer going to be a downstream distro from RHEL, but "CentOS Stream" will be upstream instead.
You will still be able to use "CentOS Stream", which will be a rolling distro, kind of a preview of RHEL. Similar to what openSUSE Tumbleweed is for SLES.
Yes. One of the benefits of using Linux/GNU distros is the cost of ownership. But Linux provides even bigger benefits like the higher security, stability and performance.
Many customers like to have both the Linux benefits and still like to be able to pay for professional support, therefore we intend to keep support for RHEL and SLES.
On the other hand, we are looking towards how the future landscape will look like and that is why we intend to support other distros like Debian that allows image redistribution (and has no license requirement).
Rocky Linux is now assuming CentOS old position of being downstream from RHEL Therefore I think it would be logical to include support for this operating system in future versions.
Currently the only Linux distributions supported are SuSE Enterprise Linux 11/12 and CentOS 8.
CentOS 8 will be in practice be dead by December 2021 and will move to CentOS Stream. This is an upstream version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is thus less stable. Understandably, customers are hesitant to move to this release, and so this only leaves SuSE Linux as a choice.
Since SuSE is a paid for subscription distribution, that leaves no free Linux operating system as a choice for customers, which is one of the main attractions to using Linux in the first place (Overall cost of ownership).
Therefore I think the inclusion of a free enterprise class Linux distribution for supported distributions with TIBCO products is a pressing issue.
Hi Wei and others,
This is something we have been discussing internally for some time.
Which would be the reason that you want to use Ubuntu instead of the currently supported operating systems?
Actually I am evaluating supporting Debian (Ubuntu is part of Debian family) since it has a higher acceptance/usage for servers using both VMs and containers.
Thanks