Comments on: CentOS has been effectively killed https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/12/10/centos-has-been-effectively-killed/ All about electronics and circuit design Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:10:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/12/10/centos-has-been-effectively-killed/comment-page-2/#comment-1810318 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:26:51 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=187376#comment-1810318 Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association to foster RHEL-based distributions development, after Red Hat limited RHEL source code access — The fallout from Red Hat’s recent decision to make it harder to access to the source code of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution continues.

Oracle, SUSE and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association amid Red Hat controversy
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/10/oracle-suse-and-ciq-launch-the-open-enterprise-linux-association-amid-red-hat-controversy/

The fallout from Red Hat’s recent decision to make it harder to access the source code of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution continues. A number of Linux distributions, including Alma Linux, Rocky Linux and Oracle Linux, based their distributions on RHEL. When Red Hat cut off the standard ways they used to get the source code for their distributions, SUSE quickly jumped into the breach with a RHEL fork.

Today, Oracle, SUSE and CIQ (the commercial entity behind Rocky Linux) are launching a more formal pact in the form of the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA), which describes itself as a “community repository for enterprise Linux sources.” In the context of the Red Hat saga, OpenELA’s tagline says a lot: “No subscriptions. No passwords. No barriers. Freeloaders welcome.”

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/12/10/centos-has-been-effectively-killed/comment-page-2/#comment-1809143 Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:53:12 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=187376#comment-1809143 RHEL Response Discussed by SFC Conference’s Panel – Including a New Enterprise Linux Standard
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/07/23/0517219/rhel-response-discussed-by-sfc-conferences-panel—including-a-new-enterprise-linux-standard

Last weekend in Portland, Oregon, the Software Freedom Conservancy hosted a new conference called the Free and Open Source Software Yearly.

And long-time free software activist Bradley M. Kuhn (currently a policy fellow/hacker-in-residence for the Software Freedom Conservancy) hosted a lively panel discussion on “the recent change” to public source code releases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux which shed light on what may happen next. The panel also included:
benny Vasquez, the Chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation
Jeremy Alison, Samba co-founder and software engineer at CIQ (focused on Rocky Linux). Allison is also Jeremy Allison – Sam Slashdot reader #8,157.
James (Jim) Wright, Oracle’s chief architect for Open Source policy/strategy/compliance/alliances

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/12/10/centos-has-been-effectively-killed/comment-page-2/#comment-1808361 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:22:03 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=187376#comment-1808361 Oracle Intends To Keep Trying To Make Oracle Linux Compatible With RHEL
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Oracle-Linux-Keep-RHEL-Compat

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/12/10/centos-has-been-effectively-killed/comment-page-2/#comment-1806377 Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:27:30 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=187376#comment-1806377 https://www.facebook.com/100064470498902/posts/pfbid0RpTCT1fnhYXA6FzBhwVGLAhaFrz1pBdFh4zZRzFWZSX2v4ZQhXai6MPpHZnKJCgXl/

Wow. Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability: CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases. For Red Hat customers and partners, source code will remain available via the Red Hat Customer Portal. This move will impact Oracle, Rocy, Alma, and any other distro using RHEL source code to build their operating system. However, Red Hat/IBM isn’t violating the GPL with this move. If they distribute binaries to you, you have access to the source code those binaries were built from. So they are keeping the GPL promises. What do you think? #linux #opensource

Looks like ibm isn’t playing nice anymore

Source; https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/12/10/centos-has-been-effectively-killed/comment-page-2/#comment-1749277 Fri, 31 Dec 2021 10:44:43 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=187376#comment-1749277 migrating to RocyLinux https://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/migrate-from-centos-8-to-rocky-linux-conversion/ as CentOS 8 hitting to EOL today.

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/12/10/centos-has-been-effectively-killed/comment-page-2/#comment-1745373 Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:43:03 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=187376#comment-1745373 https://www.facebook.com/126000117413375/posts/5206424026037600/

CentOS 8 is about to EOL month-end. It is straightforward to migrate from CentOS 8 Linux to Rocky #Linux 8. I did it in under 10 minutes. Here is my post about my experience. https://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/migrate-from-centos-8-to-rocky-linux-conversion/

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/12/10/centos-has-been-effectively-killed/comment-page-2/#comment-1743859 Sat, 04 Dec 2021 16:41:29 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=187376#comment-1743859 From https://www.facebook.com/126000117413375/posts/5183041128375890/
While my dev VM is running with Rocky Linux, I wanted to make sure production VM CentOS Linux 8 stayed up to date as CentOS 8 is going to EOL soon. So I switched to CentOS Stream for now https://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/upgrade-migrate-from-centos-8-to-centos-stream-conversion/ The end goal is to convert the legacy app to Podman but it will take time. Once my app is containerized, I will no longer be restricted by the underlying operating system dance. It will also save other headaches that I have right now. But, for now I am getting updates and patches. So I am happy.

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/12/10/centos-has-been-effectively-killed/comment-page-2/#comment-1735224 Wed, 03 Nov 2021 20:33:52 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=187376#comment-1735224 I used to use CentOS a lot. Even did a cyber hardening for quite many CentOS 7 and CentOS 8 servers.

CentOS as we used to know is now dead, if you don’t like current “rolling release” situation, use AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux or if you want to pay licenses you can use Red Hat.

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/12/10/centos-has-been-effectively-killed/comment-page-2/#comment-1717384 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 08:49:45 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=187376#comment-1717384 https://hackaday.com/2021/06/24/rocky-linux-is-ready-for-prime-time/

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/12/10/centos-has-been-effectively-killed/comment-page-2/#comment-1717096 Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:39:45 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=187376#comment-1717096 Rocky Linux 8.4 took seven months for the newly formed community to release, and is available for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architecture hardware in various ISOs.

“Sufficient testing has been performed such that we have confidence in its stability for production systems. Free community support is available through the Rocky Linux Mattermost, IRC, and forums. Paid commercial support is currently available through CIQ,” Rocky Linux notes in a blogpost.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/centos-replacement-rocky-linux-8-4-arrives-and-proves-instantly-popular/

https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-8-4-ga-release/

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