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SUSE Goes for the Fork After Red Hat's RHEL Announcement; Solus 4.4; Ubuntu Will Show APT News in the Software Updater App; Nitrux 2.9.0; Ubuntu 22.10 EOL; Nobara Project Releases New Version of Its Modified Fedora Distribution; English Translation of Children's Book Ada & Zangemann; and Steam Client Features Hardware Acceleration on Linux.

SUSE Goes for the Fork After Red Hat's RHEL Announcement

SUSE, the company behind Rancher and SUSE Enterprise Linux, has announced it will invest $10 million to fork publicly available Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and develop a RHEL-compatible distribution.

Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, CEO of SUSE, says, "For decades, collaboration and shared success have been the building blocks of our open source community. We have a responsibility to defend these values."

He then speaks to the investment SUSE has committed to this effort by saying, "This investment will preserve the flow of innovation for years to come and ensures that customers and community alike are not subjected to vendor lock-in and have genuine choice tomorrow as well as today."

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