Seismic Industry Shift: Is RHEL About to Vanish From the Web Hosting Landscape?
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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreAlma, 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.
Read MoreIBM 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.
Read MoreUsing 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!
Read MoreRedHat 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...
Read MoreNow 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...
Read MoreAlmaLinux 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...
Read MoreWe 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...
Read MoreCentOS, 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...
Read MoreWhich 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...
Read MoreTo 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...
Read MoreAs 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...
Read MoreIBM 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
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