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Rocky Linux: Community enterprise OS compatible with RHEL

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Forgive my cynicism...

I'm not sure I'm seeing any content that's worth upvoting. This is link to a GitHub Repo containing... A readme claiming to replace centos?

So I followed the link from the issue that was asking donations, and it takes me to a GitHub account that outlines some goals, and a couple more repos for 2 versions of a Rocky Linux website.

Am I missing something?

You may be missing that the guy behind Rocky, Gregory Kurtzer, is the original founder of CentOS. He has some credibility in the field.

Ah okay, thank you! I was indeed missing some context!

Sounds like a captain who’s men marooned on an island and is now looking seeking funding for a new pirate ship. How is it not somehow his fault that RedHat gained control of his first project?

My understanding is that he was forced out by some sort of community disfunction in 2005, long before Red Hat took charge.

This is accurate and that community disfunction will not happen again. In the process of creating "The Rocky Linux Foundation" which will be a non-profit organization which will "own" and maintain the Rocky Linux project and assets.

CentOS started off on the wrong foot, I made mistakes, and was naive and trusted the wrong people. Now I'm going back to the original vision, but ensuring that everything is setup properly, openly, and with integrity.

Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux now that CentOS has shifted direction - CentOS founder Gregory Kurtzer to start new rebuild of RHEL.

Yes! I'm bookmarking this repo. As soon as there is a more concrete plan, I will definitely pledge my time to help out.

I hope we all learned our lesson on this one -- let's not get acquired by RedHat/IBM this time around :)

Three cheers for Kurtzer!

> let's not get acquired by RedHat/IBM this time around :)

Does it not make sense to keep doing this and intentionally get acquired? As long as the contract doesn't forbid you from making another community fork, it seems like free money to me.

(Have never personally contributed to RHEL/CentOS, so no skin in the game. Probably I'm wrong.)

Thanks but no need for cheers. I've learned some hard lessons over the years. This time, it will stay in the community, right where it belongs.

Thank you for your support. Things are moving fast and we are looking forward to our first release, so stay tuned!

I was reading this post about the reasons of that: " Many of us have deployed CentOS servers to production environments, trusting Red Hat’s promise that CentOS 8 would be supported through 2029. The Red Hat announcement means that those installs reach end of life after less than 2 years, with the only upgrade path being Centos Stream — AKA being a forced beta tester for RHEL".

https://hackaday.com/2020/12/09/centos-is-dead-long-live-cen...

Looks like they've got a solid team put together already :)

https://github.com/rocky-linux/organization/wiki/Contributin...

Well, that didn't take long.

What did RH expect? Why did they even bother buying CentOS in the first place?

Very interesting. Quite a few commercial products are now based on CentOS as their main operating system. I wonder if they will switch to Rocky Linux as well.

I believe the planned stream version of CentOS does not appeal to the need of many enterprises.

Other than not being affiliated with Oracle, how will this differ from Oracle Linux?

Not being affiliated with Oracle is totally enough.

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