Tracking down the latest Linux version is becoming easier than ever for developers. A few days after new RHEL versions are released, new resources appear from OpenELA.
Currently, packages are available through GitHub for users of the most recent RHEL releases, namely 9.4 and 8.10. Those who have the latest enterprise Linux version once can start building their own builds as soon as possible. Now that Red Hat has shielded off its own Linux distribution, this path is considered a way to receive the sources for any new enterprise Linux version just after Red Hat Enterprise Linux hits customers.
OpenELA invites others
“If you make a downstream build, we welcome you to join OpenELA,” states Alan Clark, member of the CTO office at SUSE and co-founder of OpenELA. “The ability of OpenELA to move quickly in providing the sources to these releases illustrates to the open source community that now, with OpenELA, access to enterprise Linux sources is reliably available. This is central to the OpenELA mission: sharing with the world that these open source components are here for the taking, as they should be.”
Wim Coekaerts, EVP of Software Development at Oracle (and also co-founder of OpenELA) emphasizes the convenience of the new distribution. “By making high quality source code easily accessible to the enterprise Linux community, OpenELA enables organizations and individuals to streamline the creation of their builds, while gaining the peace of mind that the code is delivered by a reliable and secure source.”
OpenELA provides access to its own repositories for the necessary Linux sources, but does not create the builds themselves. According to CIQ CEO Gregory Kurtzer, again employed by one of OpenELA’s founders, this accelerates the activity of the open source ecosystem.
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