Version 9.3 of RHEL alternative Rocky Linux generally available
Rocky Linux version 9.3 is generally available. The RHEL alternative thus quickly succeeds version 9.3 of the official RHEL.
Rocky Linux will be available immediately for x86-64, aarch64, ppc64le and s390x architectures. That announced the organization, CIQ, of the free alternative to Red Hat E... Read more
HashiCorp also installs a paywall: does open-source get a new meaning?
HashiCorp plans to make much of the company's open-source software only available for business customers. Once again, a player in the open source community is moving away from "real" open source.
HashiCorp offers some products that are very popular among cloud developers. The company is particu... Read more
SUSE partners with Oracle and Rocky Linux for freely available EL source code
SUSE partnered with Oracle and CIQ, the party behind Rocky Linux, to encourage developers to create a RHEL-compatible distribution. The partnership supports this by offering the Linux source code for free and open.
SUSE, Oracle and CIQ together form OpenELA, an abbreviation for Open Enterprise ... Read more
AlmaLinux decides no longer to be 1:1 compatible with RHEL
AlmaLinux will no longer be one-to-one compatible with RHEL for the time being. Instead, the RHEL variant will now have application binary interface (ABI) compatibility.
With the move, the provider of the downstream RHEL variant is responding to Red Hat's recent decision to stop making the sourc... Read more
Lightning strikes the open-source world: SUSE builds its own RHEL variant
Bad weather in the open-source world. It was already raining criticism on Red Hat's announcement to put RHEL behind a paywall. The storm really seems to be brewing now, and SUSE is announcing to fork RHEL.
SUSE is going into battle with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is doing so by brewing... Read more
Rocky Linux staying alive despite roadblock to RHEL source code
Red Hat decided to discontinue its free CentOS 7 as a Linux distribution for the enterprise market. In doing so, the goal is to push customers toward the paid-for RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). As a reliable open-source product, it forms the basis for several enterprise Linux rebuilds, which Red ... Read more
SUSE emphasizes open-source support after closing off of RHEL
Red Hat has ended public open-source access to its own Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and not everyone is happy about that. Competitor SUSE emphasizes via a blog post that it has an alternative with Liberty Linux. Support for open source remains unchanged on their end, says SUSE's Technology & produc... Read more
With Red Hat killing off CentOS 7, where do organizations move to?
Red Hat has announced that CentOS 7 will no longer receive updates as of June 2024. It will also stop offering source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for non-customers, preventing free distribution. By doing so, it wants to force more customers toward RHEL. What options do you have as an al... Read more
Oracle and Red Hat bring RHEL to OCI
Joint offering with full support from Red Hat and Oracle should make it easier for RHEL users to migrate to the cloud.
Oracle and Red Hat today announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on OCI. With this, the vendors want to entice on-prem users of RHEL in particular to move ... Read more
Critical Linux kernel zero-day needs patching
We have bad news for all Linux system administrators on vacation or planning to vacation: There is a critical Linux kernel security bug. The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a zero-day security research organization, revealed a new Linux kernel security problem.
This vulnerability allows authenticated... Read more