When Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s (RHEL) source code would no longer be easily available, it rocked the world of RHEL clones such as AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, and Rocky Linux. The fight was on!
Oracle trash-talked Red Hat and vowed to to maintain RHEL compatibility. The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation will use other methods to get RHEL code. SUSE, with some help from Rocky, will fork RHEL.
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And what about AlmaLinux? The AlmaLinux OS Foundation board “has decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead aim to be Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatible.“
OK, I didn’t see that coming. While everyone else is shaking their fists at Red Hat, AlmaLinux is taking a much calmer approach.
The AlmaLinux Board voted unanimously to “continue to aim to produce an enterprise-grade, long-term distribution of Linux that is aligned and ABI compatible with RHEL in response to our community’s needs, to the extent it is possible to do, such that software that runs on RHEL will run the same on AlmaLinux.” In short, AlmaLinux’sintends to continue creating an enterprise-grade, long-lasting Linux distribution that aligns with RHEL to cater to the community’s needs.
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Article source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/almalinux-is-dropping-out-of-the-rhel-clone-wars/#ftag=RSSbaffb68