Self-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server virty users see stealth inflation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server has maintained the same starting price over the past few years. Now, changes to the way the software is licensed have doubled the cost for some self-support customers using virtual machines. The change dates back to 2019, when Red Hat said its Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, Self-support (RH0197181) was in the process of being retired and has been superseded by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Entry Level, Self-support (RH00005). According to a Red Hat spokesperson, RH00005 debuted in 2013 and RH0197181 stopped being sold in 2015. Both of these RHEL SKUs sell, or were sold, for $349 in the US. But only the discontinued product allows the use of virtualization at the lowest price tier. Now customers who opted for the discontinued entry-level offering have found they need to pay more than twice as much ($799 for the standard tier) to run a guest VM on a physical system. What's more, Red Hat in its subscription guide declares that its self-supported option "is not intended for production environments," making it clear that self-supported commercial usage with VM support requires greater investment that before.

Christian Hergert: A GTK 4 based Text Editor

It started as an application for me to verify the correctness of the GtkSourceView 5 API (which targets GTK 4). After that it helped me implement JIT support for GtkSourceView languages. Once that was done it became my test case while I wrote the GTK 4 macOS backend and revamped the GL renderer. It is a simple and humble text editor. It does not have all the corner cases you’d expect from a text editor yet. It does not have aspirations to be a programmers text editor. Now that you know this is very much a technology preview release only, you might be tempted to keep your important data away from it.

Linux 5.12-rc2

Ok, so this is a couple of days early, but rc1 had the nasty swapfile
issue, so I'm just accelerating rc2 a bit.

Outside of the swapfile IO offset fix, the only other thing that
stands out is some io_uring thread handling re-organization, which not
only solved a few fundamental issues, but actually made the code
smaller and simpler too.

Other than that it all looks pretty normal: drivers dominate (with
sound being most notable, with the ASoC Intel SOF support being split
up sanely). But there's some btrfs work, kvm, iscsi, etc. A few random
things all over.

Shortlog appended for your viewing pleasure, and I sincerely hope (and
believe) that rc2 is in a lot better shape than rc1 was.

              Linus