Make or Buy is the new Fight or Flight: The Survival Journey of NethServer in a Fast-Paced World

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What happens when a successful classic Linux distribution, supported by awell-established international community of users and backed by a company,faces the challenges of a fast-paced open-source world of cloud-nativetechnologies, containers, and Kubernetes?Will the project abandon its roots and embrace new trends (Buy/Flight)? Or will it stick to its original mission and values (Make/Fight)?This is the story of NethServer, an open-source Linux distribution based onCentOS, born around 2011, and its migration from a classic Linux distributionto a modern, multi-node container orchestration platform.The talk will cover:* The motivations behind the choice of Make instead of Buy* An overview of the new architecture and its features* The impact on the community and the companyThe talk will also provide insights on how to build a successful open-sourceproject and community in a world where the only constant is change.