Luckily rocky linux will take it’s place downstream from RHEL also aiming for bug-for-bug compatibility. and with one the original creators behind it the future is looking solid. I’ve replaced our CentOS instances at work with rocky linux and it’s essentially the same.
edit: I completely missed that RHEL is going closed source and thought this was about CentOS stream. This means rocky (or relatives) won’t actually be a solution for you as can only compile from the stream branch.
Does IBM really have to ruin everything it touches?
Thanks, appreciate it.
https://rockylinux.org/news/2023-06-22-press-release/
While this certainly makes things difficult, I wouldn’t count Rocky out just yet.
Very dumb move by
IBMRedhatJeff Geerling’s take was good:
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/dear-red-hat-are-you-dumb
If I’m reading this correctly, CentOS is no longer getting RHEL downstream code, essentially forking CentOS from RHEL. Not great news, but not suprising considering the IBM acquisition.
RHEL is downstream of CentOS - not forked. RHEL behind a paywall and any publicly distributed changes to that paid source is against TOS (I think).
I thought Fedora —> RHEL —> CentOS, but I could be wrong.
No that was changed with Stream. RHEL is the furthest official downstream now. Most stable and slowest to update.
You are correct, CentOS is still downstream from RHEL, whereas CentOS Stream is just ahead of RHEL.
