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The Linux political wars have been percolating for a month now, and depending on what side you belong to, the decision by Red Hat to restrict source code distribution for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is either a business decision that needed to happen or an act of betrayal. The operating system brouhaha began with
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With Red Hat now restricting access to the RHEL source repositories, AlmaLinux and other downstreams that have long provided 'community' rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with 1:1 compatibility to upstream RHEL have been left sorting out what to do.
AlmaLinux has announced that the distribution will no longer be a strict clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but will maintain ABI compatibility.