[GTALUG] GTALUG meeting Tuesday 7:30 PM: Rocky Linux

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

When: Tuesday September 12, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Where: online <https://blue.lpi.org/b/eva-zjc-gjy-kgl>

Speakers from Rocky Linux will talk about the distribution's evolution 
away from CentOS. We may also hear about the association between Rocky, 
SUSE and Oracle.

Context:

<https://rockylinux.org/>
<https://www.centos.org/>
<https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux>

CentOS was a very popular open source and free rebuild of Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux.  This was very useful to many of us since RHEL releases 
are very stable, have very long life cycles, great engineering, and were 
adopted by many corporations.

Since Red Hat effectively killed it, there has been a struggle for a 
consensus on a successor.

Rocky Linux is one of the clear leaders to take on this role.  It's not 
easy since Red Hat is trying to impede clones.

Oracle (which has had its own clone for some time) and SuSE (which has
long had its own commercial distro with a significant engineering
team) are somehow working with Rocky.