Can someone confirm or fill in details?<p>* CentOS used to be a free rebranding of RHEL.<p>* IBM effectively cut off CentOS.<p>* Rocky Linux is the replacement free RHEL-compatible distro, but is higher effort to maintain than CentOS was.<p>* "Rocky Linux from CIQ" is a commercial product that is attempting to compete with RHEL, by being lower-cost essentially-RHEL while still satisfying some is-there-a-company-behind-it "compliance" checkboxes that companies require?<p>* "Rocky Linux from CIQ - Hardened" offers some supposed security improvements that vanilla RHEL doesn't?
>Secure
All packages validated and delivered via secure supply chain from CIQ repositories.<p>How deep does this go.<p>Are they inspecting every line of code in every source repo ?<p>What happens when I need a package they haven't validated yet ?
as seen on the about page[0]
"Named in honor of CentOS co-founder Rocky McGaugh"<p>"Gregory Kurtzer, our CEO and founder," the other CentOS guy.<p>[0]<a href="https://ciq.com/company/founding-story/" rel="nofollow">https://ciq.com/company/founding-story/</a>
And more drama from the machine that is being the FUD created over every misstep of RHEL/IBM. And I mean misstep not evil attack on the community. CIQ is the worst of FOSS and a blight causing nonsense arguing rather than actually contributing to a better community.
Oh wait, it is a commercial offering ... Hardened? What do they actually do besides repackaging. I fail to see what this provides over RHEL or even AlmaLinux. They will always be a downstream/derivative who does not really engage with the upstream.