NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux
What a weird way to spend federal money. I say it&#x27;s weird because NASA almost certainly has its own internal Linux support paid through overhead in one form or another, and again the incremental cost of adding &quot;developer&quot; support from Red hat is way, way cheaper than Rocky.<p>Finally, I doubt Rocky&#x27;s support can perform as well as Red Hat&#x27;s. No, I&#x27;m not talking about the people who talk on the phone when you break something. If you find a bug in a package, will Rocky be able to quickly and effectively upstream the fix, or will Rocky end up maintaining you on a custom patchlevel forever?<p>I doubt Rocky has the ability to truly fulfill 24&#x2F;7 support. It&#x27;s difficult to build a deep bench for support, and nearly impossible to make sure you&#x27;re keeping up 24&#x2F;7 capability for other Maintenance Engineering type tasks.<p>And if none of these reasons are important enough to stop you from paying them, maybe the thing you&#x27;re doing isn&#x27;t important enough to warrant paying for support anyway.