Rocky Linux 10 “Red Quartz” has reached general availability, notes a new article in The Register — surveying the differences between “RHELatives” — the major alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux:

The Rocky 10 release notes describe wh…

SiFive was one of the first companies to produce a RISC-V chip. This week they announced a new collaboration with Red Hat “to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux support to the rapidly growing RISC-V community” and “prepare Red Hat’s product portfolio for f…

In Raleigh, North Carolina — the home of Red Hat — local newspaper the News & Observer takes an in-depth look at the “announcement that split the open source software community.” (Alternate URL here.)

[M]any saw Red Hat’s decision to e…

An anonymous reader shares a report: When Mike McGrath, Red Hat’s Red Hat Core Platforms vice president, announced that Red Hat was putting new restrictions on who could access Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)’s code, other Linux companies that depended…

Yes, Red Hat Enterprise Linux changed its licensing last month — but how will that affect AlmaLinux? The chair of the nonprofit AlmaLinux OS Foundation, benny Vasquez, tells SiliconANGLE that “For typical users, there’s very, very little differen…

In February of 1994 Jon “maddog” Hall interviewed a young Linus Torvalds (then just 24). Nearly three decades later — as Hall approaches his 73rd birthday — he’s shared a long essay looking back, but also assessing today’s controversy about…

After Red Hat’s decision to only share RHEL source code with subscribers, AlmaLinux asked their bug report submitters to “attempt to test and replicate the problem in CentOS Stream as well, so we can focus our energy on correcting it in the right place…

Last weekend in Portland, Oregon, the Software Freedom Conservancy hosted a new conference called the Free and Open Source Software Yearly.

And long-time free software activist Bradley M. Kuhn (currently a policy fellow/hacker-in-residence for the So…

SiliconANGLE reports that Red Hat’s decision to limit access to RHEL sources “has sparked outrage in some circles,” but observers contacted by the publication “were mostly sympathetic” to Red Hat’s position:

Most acknowledged that the company’s explan…

Reactions continue to Red Hat’s announcement that they’d start limiting access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources, reports Ars Technica:

Rocky Linux, launched by CentOS co-founder Greg Kurtzer as a replacement RHEL-compatible distro, announced Thurs…