This document is intended to clarify the impact of the Percona Release Lifecycle Overview and the Percona Services Lifecycle Policy on software which Percona produces and the Linux-based operating system platforms which we provide services and software builds for.| Percona
Responding to RedHat’s latest rug-pull.| www.sacredheartsc.com
It’s been a whirlwind few weeks here at AlmaLinux, and I’m elated to be able to finally share this update. The future of AlmaLinux OS In case you missed it, Red Hat announced they will no longer be providing the means for downstream clones to continue to be 1:1 binary copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Very quickly, both Jack and I shared some initial thoughts, but we intentionally took our time deciding the next right step for AlmaLinux OS. After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS...| AlmaLinux OS
We posted a follow-up update on July 13, which you can read here: The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright As we discussed last week, on June 21 Red Hat announced that RHEL source code will only be available via the Red Hat Customer Portal. What is the status of security updates? Prior to Red Hat’s policy change, when RHEL published a package update of any sort (security or bugfix), they published the corresponding source code into a repository. Then AlmaLinux integrated the update into our own bu...| AlmaLinux OS
This article was originally published primarily as a response to IBM's Red Hat's change to no longer publish complete, corresponding source (CCS) for RHEL and the prior discontinuation of CentOS Linux (which are related events, as described below). We hope that this will serve as a comprehensive document that discusses the history of Red Hat's RHEL business model, the related source code provisioning, and the GPL compliance issues with RHEL.| Software Freedom Conservancy
– We posted a follow-up post on June 30, which you can read here: Our Value is our Values We posted another follow-up update on July 13, which you can read here: The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright – Yesterday, RedHat announced another massive shift that impacts all rebuilds and forks of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Going forward Red Hat will now only be releasing the source code for RHEL RPMs behind their customer portal. Since all RHEL clones rely on the sources being published, this is caus...| AlmaLinux OS