Sure enough, the community started https://rockylinux.org/ as quick as redhat killed it!
If I might suggest a subtle variation on the name and branding, it would be this:
RockOS: It Rocks.
A hard look at Springdale Linux is due, similar to the White Box Linux assimilation into CentOS.
Oracle also needs to get the converter script updated for CentOS 8, preferably in a manner that switches update streams fluidly.
https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/
The ship is sinking, get in the life boats.
""" Q: Wait, doesn't Oracle Linux cost money?
A: Oracle Linux support costs money. If you just want the software, it's 100% free. [...] Yes, we know that this is Oracle, but it's actually free. Seriously.
[...]
Q: Why are you doing this?
A: This is not some gimmick to get you running Oracle Linux so that you buy support from us. [...] """
Larry really wanted to punish Red Hat, and he did.
Red Hat people are still hypersensitive on the subject, believe me.
edit: RockyLinux and CloudLinux are joining forces, https://www.reddit.com/r/RockyLinux/comments/kanvwb/cloudlin...
That seems about as auspicious as one could reasonably expect. Awesome news.
Edit: why the downvotes.
Take BTRFS: it was a technology preview in an earlier release of RHEL but it was later retracted.
AFAIK they don't have enough internal people working on BTRFS, most of their filesystem people are XFS people.
And since shipping btrfs would have meant supporting it for the next ~5-10 years (along with bugfix backports)... they decided to pull the plug.
Sadly, I think that in few years IBM will make sure that only wars will be internal turf wars between different departments.
Decision to drop something like btrfs will be based on which VP has better political game skills, and people working on it won’t have much saying in it. I’d love to be wrong tho, as redhat is one of the most important Linux project in the history, and it’ll be sad if it ends like that.
are you red hat employee to be able to tell that or is it just a speculation ?