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Rocky Linux Confirmed to Remain 1:1 Fully Compatible with RHEL

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 31, 2023

Red Hat’s move to restrict access to its source code at the end of June left the enterprise Linux market’s leading players, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, and Oracle Linux, in an unexpected predicament.

Each of them was looking for a solution to get out of the situation, and now, two months later, we have a relatively good idea of the path each of these distributions will take.

In this light, and alongside the recently established by CIQ, SUSE, and Oracle, the ОpenELA project, in an announcement on the topic, Rocky Linux confirmed its decision to strictly adhere to this to be a 1:1 fully compatible, drop-in replacement to RHEL.

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