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Rocky and Alma Linux Still Going Strong. RHEL Adds an AI Assistant
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…
Red Hat Collaborates with SIFive on RISC-V Support, as RHEL 10 Brings AI Assistant and Post-Quantum Security
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…
How Red Hat Divided the Open Source Community
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…
CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Unite Behind OpenELA To Take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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…
AlmaLinux Leader Says Red Hat’s Code Crackdown Isn’t a Threat
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…
Jon ‘maddog’ Hall Defends Red Hat’s Re-Licensing of RHEL
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…
AlmaLinux Discovers Working with Red Hat (and CentOS Stream) Isn’t Easy
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…
RHEL Response Discussed by SFC Conference’s Panel – Including a New Enterprise Linux Standard
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…
Red Hat’s Decision Prompts Outrage and Sympathy, Called ‘Necessary’ and ‘Embarrassing’
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…