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SUSE today announced that it is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Here's the history of why that's happening.

The biggest threats to Red Hat’s Linux market share will come from the companies that make it easiest for developers to do their jobs.

Following the stunning decision last month by IBM that they would begin limiting access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources, AlmaLinux quickly came out working on a path forward and Rocky Linux also shared some ideas how they may continue providing a RHEL-compatible Linux distribution

Oracle is weighing in on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux debacle, promising it will never restrict access to its own source code.

Recent moves by the open-source software company Red Hat point at a growing divide between commercial Linux users and the noncommercial community that supports them.

Rocky Linux, a project set up by the founder of the CentOS project, Gregory Kurtzer, has outlined what it says are ways to legally obtain source code...

UPDATE (7/3): Red Hat announced four additional years of "extended support" for RHEL 7 beyond its originally-scheduled 2024 end-of-life: As we near the end of the standard 10-year life cycle of RHEL 7, some IT organizations are finding that they cannot complete their planned migrations before June...

Long-time Slashdot reader internet-redstar writes: In little longer than 1 year, RHEL7 and CentOS 7 will go EOL. Large enterprises with thousands of these servers are struggling to meet that deadline. Now they also have the option to use Project78 from Linux Belgium which offers a Cloud and OnPrem ...

Reactions continue to Red Hats announcement that theyd start limiting access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources, reports Ars Technica: Rocky Linux, launched by CentOS co-founder Greg Kurtzer as a replacement RHEL-compatible distro, announced Thursday that it believes Red Hats moves "violate th...

Red Hat rivals and many open-source developers are mad as hell about the companys new source code policy. Will this dispute end up in the courts?