Hi, I just stumbled over this : https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-CentOS-Stream-Sources Is this the end of Rocky Linux as we know it ?

If not already posted: [Addressing the Recent Red Hat Decision and the Path Forward for CIQ]

I hope they will give the opportunity.

Note that this is mostly CIQ specific and does not include the perspective of volunteers (such as myself) at the RESF.

Interesting discussion on r/SysAdmin: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/14sr3bp/red_hat_sysadmins_are_the_new_licensing_changes/

My final thoughts on this issue: I cut my teeth on Red Hat/Centos/RHEL. I currently support a scant few RHEL servers, where having support is critical for continuity of business - I use Rocky for testing/wringing out pre-production configurations and (‘non-critical’, if you will) implementations. I…

[image] Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To Oracle underscores its commitment to helping keep Linux open and free for the global Linux community.

One observation: the whole discussion the last 3 weeks or so mostly about Rocky and Alma, not Oracle Linux. The last 3 weeks without a word from Oracle, as if Oracle Linux were not affected. And in the above statement they are reiterating: “…attacking AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux…”. As if OL wasn’t a d…

Red Hat and Oracle are partners, officially.

It sounds like Oracle may be starting to plan for a post RHEL world, along with Cloudlinux. Oracle has the engineer’s to put effort into patching and maintaining their own upstream OS independent of RHEL. Ive been thinking about what a post RHEL “Open Enterprise Linux” OS would look like and while …

I found this part interesting “…We chose to be RHEL compatible because we did not want to fragment the Linux community…”. It is obvious that Oracle benefits from RHEL, but it is also true that fragmenting the Linux community is not good.

Has Red Hat just killed Rocky Linux?

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