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Linuxiac:
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Red Hat Restricts Access to Its Security-Announcement List
In recent months, news from the Red Hat camp has been raining down one after another, but unfortunately, most of it has been controversial and challenging for the open-source community to accept. So, let’s quickly recall what has happened so far.
It all started in December 2020 when Red Hat transformed CentOS to CentOS Stream, removing it from the server OS game. By then, the distribution enjoyed millions of installs and was the leading free alternative to enterprise Linux.
It ultimately comes down to eliminating the competition in favor of their RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) offering.
This resulted in several new RHEL derivatives, with Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux being the most popular. These have gained momentum, with Rocky becoming users’ most preferred EL distribution, leaving RHEL behind.
The Register:
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Red Hat retires mailing list, leaving Linux loyalists to read between the lines
We can't improve on LWN's summary, which said: "That is the list that receives security advisories for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a whole slew of related products." A regular feature on LWN is a list of newly announced security fixes, and Red Hat's list closure has prompted considerable discussion there – which makes some interesting points.
If you're an ordinary Linux user running a mainstream distro that you update frequently and regularly – as we all should, but far too many folks don't – then these bulletins are not of much help. Distro vendors release patches and fixes as soon as they've been tested, and you will get them at your next update.