# What the source of the EL part of openEl?

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**Created:** [September 11, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-the-source-of-the-el-part-of-openel/11259 "2023-09-11T12:45:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![JustSomeone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@JustSomeone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/JustSomeone)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-the-source-of-the-el-part-of-openel/11259/1 "2023-09-11T12:45:34Z")

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Hello everyone

does anyone know which distor ment by EL in this point

`All sources necessary to achieve a 1:1 / bug-for-bug compatible version of EL which will be distributed via Git, encouraging community collaboration`

from this post on twitter it said it’s RHEL

[https://twitter.com/SUSE/status/1689882027565228032#m](https://twitter.com/SUSE/status/1689882027565228032#m)

so how it different from rockylinux?

thanks for your time and have a nice day 🙂

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**Author:** ![tjdoyle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/tjdoyle/32/500_2.png) [@tjdoyle](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/tjdoyle)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-the-source-of-the-el-part-of-openel/11259/2 "2023-09-11T12:49:47Z")

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Hi,

I would guess Enterprise Linux.

Regards Tom.

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**Author:** ![JustSomeone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@JustSomeone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/JustSomeone)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-the-source-of-the-el-part-of-openel/11259/3 "2023-09-11T12:53:35Z")

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hi @tjdoyle

i got that but i meant about the source of the code and if it rhel then how it different from rocky 🙂

thanks and have a nice day 🙂

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**Author:** ![JustSomeone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@JustSomeone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/JustSomeone)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-the-source-of-the-el-part-of-openel/11259/4 "2023-09-11T13:00:09Z")

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i got what i need from the [openel faq](https://openela.org/faq/)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-the-source-of-the-el-part-of-openel/11259/5 "2023-11-10T13:00:48Z")

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