The Suicide Attempt by Red Hat [Opinion] (UPDATED)
Excuse my tone this time because my heart doesn't want RHEL to be inaccessible to hobbyists. The free RHEL developer license is just whataboutism and dilutes the enthusiasm felt by the broader hobbyists' and tinkerers' community compared to when true RHEL clones existed.
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Red Hat in full spin mode after restrictions on Enterprise Linux sources
Red Hat is finding itself with a rebellion on its hands after it announced it would limit access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources by putting them behind the Red Hat Customer Portal and limited to the CentOS Stream sources.
This move causes problems for free-of-cost derivatives like AlmaLinux and has been greeted with the same unbridled joy from open sourcers as Tsar Putin had when he heard his former cook was marching on Moscow.
Red Hat this week issued another blog post by Mike McGrath, the VP of Core Platforms Engineering at Red Hat. In the post, he talks up "Red Hat's commitment to open source" in which he said that the outfit did make its hard work readily accessible to non-customers.
The Register:
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Rocky Linux details the loopholes that will help its RHEL rebuild live on
Last week, the Rocky Linux project said it had found a way to continue delivering its RHEL-based distribution. Now we have some information on how it's doing it.
The decades-long battle between Red Hat and the various organizations cloning its enterprise Linux distro has taken a new turn. If you've been following the news recently, Red Hat fired a salvo against the RHEL rebuilds by stopping publication of its enterprise distro's source code to its Git repository. Soon afterwards, we covered the news that the Rocky Linux project announced that it had found a workaround.
In a blog post boldly entitled "Keeping Open Source Open", the project describes two different ways that it can obtain RHEL source code without contravening Red Hat's license agreements.
2 discussions in Slashdot:
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After RHEL 7's EOL, Red Hat Will Offer a 4-Year 'Extended Life Cycle Support' Add-On
End-of-life for Red Hat 7 is scheduled to happen in one year. Thursday Red Hat announced an add-on option for four more years of "extended support" for RHEL 7...
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Defying Red Hat, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux Vow to Continue RHEL-Compatible Updates
Red Hat argued that they "do not find value in a RHEL rebuild." Rocky Linux dismissed this view as "narrow-minded," and RHEL-derived AlmaLinux even responded with specific examples, also noting its contributions to the RHEL and CentOS communities. AlmaLinux's community manager wrote "When executed properly, downstream rebuilds provide tremendous value and are a tremendous asset to upstream projects."
LWN's mention:
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Brockmeier: Red Hat and the Clone Wars III: The dawn of CentOS
Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier has been a part of the Linux community for decades; he is now using that experience to write a series on "Red Hat and the Clone Wars". The first two episodes were Red Hat and the Clone Wars and A history of the early 2000s Linux landscape; the latest is The dawn of CentOS..
ITWire:
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Rocky Linux outlines ways to legally obtain Red Hat source code
In a blog post titled "Keeping open source open", the Rocky Linux project said it now had two options for obtaining RHEL source code: through UBI container images and through pay-per-use public cloud instances.
VICE:
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The Red Hat Drama Is Highlighting Open Source Software's Growing Pains
Recent moves by the open-source software company Red Hat point at a growing divide between commercial Linux users and the noncommercial community that supports them.