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For testing only - but new distro compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux getting close to release Tim Anderson Tue 4 May 2021 // 13:44 UTC Share Copy The Rocky Linux project, kicked off by original CentOS founder Gregory Kurtzer, has released RC1 of its distribution, which aims to be 100 per cent compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Rocky Linux was founded almost at the same moment when Red Hat, along with the CentOS board, stated last December that it was shifting its investment from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. CentOS Linux, a downstream build of the Red Hat...

Looking for a CentOS Replacement? Start Here IT shops may be looking for a CentOS replacement in advance of its support sunsetting. Here are some alternative free Linux distros. Red Hat’s December 2020 announcement that it will do away with CentOS, its free-to-use downstream clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, caused a stir among IT shops in the estimated 2,500 companies that rely on CentOS to run production workloads, as well as for testing or development purposes. These include Northrup Gruman, Comcast, Verizon, Master Card, Indeed and many others. Red Hat, which gained control of Ce...

Is openSUSE Leap Ready to Be the New CentOS? OpenSUSE Leap is set to become an identical twin to the commercial distribution SUSE Linux Enterprise in a way that CentOS never was to RHEL. openSUSE Leap 15.3, the Linux distribution SUSE released in beta last week, represents a departure for the German software maker in that it's nearly identical to its commercial distribution, the one that makes it money. It's also a good candidate for replacing CentOS, the free Linux distribution that's been popular among enterprises which Red Hat, its developer, is now planning to stop supporting. Leap ...

Red Hat Expands Free RHEL to Quell CentOS Kerfuffle In an attempt to make CentOS users happy, Red Hat has expanded its free RHEL offering to 16 servers while allowing production workloads. Last week, Red Hat announced it will now allow you to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux in production on up to 16 servers for free. The program, which begins on February 1, doesn't include technical support, but does include security patches and bug fixes. It’s a free RHEL offering meant to appease CentOS users, who were unhappy upon learning in December 2020 that Red Hat will end support for the popular...

I also have a video version of this post (in case you're more visually inclined): Red Hat and CentOS When Red Hat took over the CentOS project back in 2014, there was a mixed, but mostly positive reaction. The CentOS maintainers were sometimes having a hard time keeping up with upstream changes in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and major releases like version 7 and 8 were challenging due to the required architecture changes. So Red Hat's willingness to come in and backstop CentOS was generally a good thing—for a time. Last month, Red Hat dropped a bombshell: CentOS users who had started a...