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Seismic Industry Shift: Is RHEL About to Vanish From the Web Hosting Landscape?

Jul 22, 2023

A few years ago, RHEL/CentOS was embedded into the web hosting ecosystem. Now we are on the cusp of that distribution vanishing from the landscape.

Seismic Industry Shift: Is RHEL About to Vanish From the Web Hosting Landscape?

CLONE WARS: How Every Major RHEL Clone is Reacting to IBM, From Counter-Exploiting Legal Loopholes to RHEL++ Semi-Clones

raindog308

Jul 14, 2023

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Alma, Rocky, SUSE, and Oracle are all taking different approaches to IBM's bombshell announcement that it's crippling the RHEL clone market. Let's look at the landscape and what the future of RHEL++ semi-clones will be like.

CLONE WARS: How Every Major RHEL Clone is Reacting to IBM, From Counter-Exploiting Legal Loopholes to RHEL++ Semi-Clones

Rocky Linux is Back in the RHEL Clone Business Due to a Clever Legal Hack

raindog308

Jul 02, 2023

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IBM made some strong-arm moves to stomp out RHEL clones nine days ago. Six days later, one of them found a way to legally circumvent these tactics. There are some clever guys over at Rocky Linux.

Rocky Linux is Back in the RHEL Clone Business Due to a Clever Legal Hack

LowEndBoxTV: Which Distro is Fastest?

raindog308

Feb 26, 2023

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Using popular benchmarks (PHPBench, Redis, ZSTD, Geekbench, VP9 Encode, WebP, OpenSSL, etc.) Piotr compares Debian, Ubuntu, and various RHEL-universe distros to see how they perform on typical LowEnd VPSes. Lots of data and interesting conclusions!

Get Ready to Upgrade to RedHat Enterprise Linux 9

raindog308

May 14, 2022

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RedHat Linux 9 will soon be here. It was announced this week at Red Hat Summit and will be the first major release post-IBM acquisition. Presumably Alma and Rocky releases will soon follow. As a rem...

RHEL 9 Goes Beta

raindog308

Nov 06, 2021

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Now that (hopefully?) the CentOS Stream debacle and the subsequent rise of Alma and Rocky Linux is behind us, there's news from RedHat that RHEL 9 has gone beta. Is this the love child that will fina...

AlmaLinux Announces ELevate Project: Migrate/Upgrade Between Any RHEL-based Distro!

raindog308

Oct 20, 2021

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AlmaLinux announced today the ELevate Project, which is their initiative to allow users to upgrade or migrate between any RHEL- based distro. Using this technology, currently you can easily move betw...

Meme Monday: We're IBM

raindog308

May 17, 2021

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We covered the recent jarring changes with the CentOS Project. You might also enjoy Our article on rpm-land alternatives A poll we did on your CentOS plans (results) Our interview with Igor Sel...

LowEndBoxTV: CentOS...What Happened?!?

raindog308

May 04, 2021

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CentOS, RIP...long live CentOS Stream?!? What hath IBM wrought? In this video, we break down the CentOS drama. As you can tell from the thumbnail...it isn't pretty! You could answer the question in o...

LowEndBoxTV: Ranking the VPS Operating System Choices into Tiers!

raindog308

May 01, 2021

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Which Linux distros and operating systems we use on our cheap VPSes are Legend, which are Hipster Only, and which are Get Outta Here? We sort Alma, Alpine, Arch, CentOS (classic and stream), Debian, F...

LowEndBoxTV: Ranking the VPS Operating System Choices into Tiers!

Community News: AlmaLinux OS Now Available on RackNerd's Platform!

raindog308

Apr 13, 2021

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To continue LowEndBox’s new “interesting news” series, we recently received a new submission from Dustin B. Cisneros over at RackNerd to let everybody know that AlmaLinux is now officially available a...

Community News: AlmaLinux OS Now Available on RackNerd's Platform!

Poll: What are Your CentOS Plans?

raindog308

Mar 10, 2021

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As we reported last December, CentOS is changing. Instead of being downstream of RHEL (and seeking to be a free RHEL clone), it is now moving upstream of RHEL and will be a development playground for...

CentOS, RHEL, and Alma: The Plot Thickens!

raindog308

Jan 21, 2021

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IBM recently announced that CentOS was no longer going to be CentOS. As we discussed previously, CentOS used to be downstream of RedHat Enterprise Linux and was a nearly 1:1 clone. Now it's moving u...

CentOS, RHEL, and Alma: The Plot Thickens!

CentOS, RIP...Long Live CentOS Stream?!?

raindog308

Dec 14, 2020

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The CentOS project recently announced that CentOS is radically changing. Does this mean the end of the road for CentOS as we know it? RIP CentOS perhaps? Let's talk about what's new with this Linux di...