"Today SUSE [...] announced it is forking publicly available Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and will develop and maintain a RHEL-compatible distribution available to all without restrictions."
Remember that story recently about Project Zero finding three unpatched kernel vulnerabilities in CentOS 9? As of May 1st, all three are now fixed (never mind the fact that one of them was already fixed well before the story came out). CentOS 9 is currently the only Enterprise Linux distro with these fixes.
[For immediate release][Reno, NV, June 22, 2023] – Rocky Linux, a prominent community-driven open-source distribution of Enterprise Linux (EL), remains confident in its ability to continue as a bug-for-bug compatible and freely available alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), despite changes in accessibility. https://rockylinux.org/news/2023-06-22-press-release/#enterpriselinux#rockylinux#opensource#linux
@centos will be hosting an event at SCaLE called CentOS Classroom - a neat opportunity to learn more about the project from contributors. Happening Mar 14 from 2-5pm local time!
At the end there will be a packaging workshop for Fedora EPEL! Check it out if you've wanted to get into packaging but weren't sure how. @carlwgeorge's got your back. 👍
The RESF is a Platinum sponsor of Flock to Fedora in Cork, Ireland in August. https://flocktofedora.org/
That which supports upstream Enterprise Linux also benefits projects like Rocky Linux, of course. Our contributors have known this since the beginning. This is what an open source "freeloader" looks like.
Rocky Linux, a prominent community-driven open-source distribution of Enterprise Linux (EL), remains confident in its ability to continue as a bug-for-bug compatible and freely available alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), despite changes in accessibility.
Also, I am interested by the strong reaction to this exploitation of the #OpenSource supply chain. Yes, it shows a weakness in trust and the maintainer model. There are big questions to answer. What if this was not stopped as early, or if it breached #EnterpriseLinux?
Yet at the same time, the most practical way this could have been discovered is the #FreeSoftware way. Someone was literally performance testing a PostgreSQL database, saw something weird, and shared their discovery with others.
🦄 Some open source projects foster community especially well. As our project grows, we want to lift up other parts of the open source community. Today we are looking for the unicorns — the ones that draw people in, mentor them, equip them, and retain them. Who do you want to brag on today? What do they do best?