> Rocky Linux remains dedicated to its mission of delivering a community-based, accessible, and transparent EL operating system. The project pledges to keep its promise to maintain the full life-span of support for Rocky 8 and 9, and to continue to produce future RHEL-compatible versions as long as the option remains, allowing organizations to maintain the flexibility, control, and freedom they rely upon for their critical infrastructure. This is the open source way.<p>Despite the title, this press release doesn't say much really, not how they are going to source patches, or they are going to continue their RHEL 1:1 bug compatibility.
I think Almalinux's press release was much more direct to the point.
Realistically redhat only serves two customers:<p>0. Government or affiliated that require scap/stig or other compliance frameworks like fips140 or hipaa and actually use stuff like fapolicyd or aide.<p>1. Large companies that build "support" into the risk matrix for leadership who are obligated by law to protect shareholders.<p>Other companies that just "use Linux" probably use alma or rocky, but certainly aren't joined at the hip.<p>Personally I hope this comes back to bite big blue. For this to have any effect on Oracle you'd need to have started doing it like a decade ago before they too started eating customers from #0
This is a little off topic, but can someone tell me the different between Rocky Linux and Alma Linux. Reading a few blog posts the only different I can't find is a slightly different release schedule, and different levels of funding.<p>Can both continue in a post-RHEL-sources world?
> <i>The Rocky Linux community strongly believes in the open source value of collaboration. Rocky Linux contributors have participated as a responsible part of the EL ecosystem, regularly contributing upstream to CentOS Stream as well as Fedora, and other open source projects. These contributions strengthen the entire EL community.</i><p>I'm really happy to hear this, but what sort of upstream contributions has Rocky sent?
A lot of wishy washy talk without anything to back it up.
Anyone using alma or rocky should start planning their stream/RHEL Dev or Ubuntu/Debian migration.
The internal analysis does not sound that optimistic, from <a href="https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/r.24fab14385c0aa2db6fa7340a8b2aae7#L83" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/r.24fab14385c0aa2db6fa7340a8b...</a> ...<p>Options<p>* Buy a farm in Nebraska or Montana. Raise cattle<p>* Utilize RH subscriptions to access CDN sources and create local source mirrors for every package which we can then import from
Q for legal: we need to review the licensing terms
Red Hat isn't changing the terms of the GPL. What they're doing is making access to the GPL code a benefit of maintaining an active Red Hat subscription, which has its own terms and conditions. If you have an active Red Hat subscription, then you can look at the source code all day long and may be able to redistribute it for purposes of bug fixes, etc.<p>What you can't do is use your subscription to obtain the source code, which you then redistribute to someone that doesn't have a RH subscription. This would violate the terms and conditions of the RH subscription.<p>Basically, they've inserted a new licensing layer 'above' the GPL: you can't obtain the GPL code unless you agree to the terms of the RH subscription in the first place. In other words, the RH subscription Ts and Cs supersede the GPL.
Isn't this similar to the way things were before Cent OS was acquired? Or did they make source rpms available to everyone freely back then?<p>EDIT: I looked into it a bit more and it looks like there used to be an FTP site with SRPMS. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/
IBM/Red Hat have just handed Rocky Linux the possibility of becoming the de facto enterprise Linux.<p>The Rocky Linux team have already been selling support, but previously they could only hope to be an alternative to Red Hat.<p>With IBM/Red Hat effectively abandoning Open Source, Rocky Linux can step in and position themselves to fill that gap.<p>This will go down as yet another huge strategic blunder by IBM.