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The AlmaLinux Foundation, which produces the community-owned and governed CentOS alternative AlmaLinux, has announced support for the Raspberry Pi.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation has announced the general availability of AlmaLinux 8.10, a community-owned open-source alternative to CentOS.

The world's second-biggest open source company, SUSE, has a solution to offer those firms that are using CentOS 7, an enterprise Linux distribution that reaches its end of life on 30 June.

The organisation that builds Rocky Linux, an enterprise Linux distribution that emerged in the wake of Red Hat's decision to block availability of its source code to the public, has announced an initiative called CIQ Bridge which it describes as "a lifeline for enterprises still using CentOS Linux 7".

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation has announced the release of AlmaLinux 9.4 just a week after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4, with hardware support for those devices deprecated in RHEL.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation, a non-profit that oversees development of the CentOS alternative AlmaLinux, has launched its newest special interest group that will focus on the needs of the high-performance computing and artificial intelligence community within AlmaLinux.

The ELevate project at AlmaLinux, one of the main distributions that aim to provide a replacement for CentOS, has been expanded to provide support for those who wish to migrate from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation has released AlmaLinux 9.3, it first release built entirely from upstream sources without any recourse to source code from Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

After the recent changes in source code availability enforced by the IBM-owned Red Hat, enterprise Linux is likely to take a different path to that which it was following when the standard was being a downstream rebuild of RHEL, the chair of AlmaLinux OS Foundation, one of the distributions that sprang up after Red Hat discontinued CentOS, says.

As the Linux kernel gets set to mark 32 years since its public announcement, a senior developer from German open source firm SUSE has reminded the world at large that it is the de-facto standard for running business-critical workloads.

Red Hat's recent decision, to make it more difficult for others to gain access to the source code for its enterprise Linux, has resulted in three companies joining to try and nullify the impact of this change.

Red Hat has given an indication of how desperate it is to spread its views, about the latest act of making the source of its RHEL distribution available only to paying customers, that it is paying to have its executives interviewed.

IBM-owned open source vendor Red Hat initially rejected a patch for a vulnerability in iperf3 which was submitted by a developer of RHEL clone AlmaLinux, only agreeing to merge it after a lot of jaw.

Samba co-founder Jeremy Allison has likened the current move by Red Hat, to restrict access to the source code of its enterprise Linux distribution, to the way Sun Microsystems reacted to the threat from Linux.

The disquiet over Red Hat's recent move to make it extremely difficult for others to gain access to the source code of its enterprise Linux distribution — Red Hat Enterprise Linux or RHEL — doesn't appear to be dying down though more than a month has passed since the company said source code would, from now on, be available only to paying customers.

The chairman of the board at AlmaLinux, one of the distributions that sprang up after Red Hat discontinued CentOS, has admitted that it would not be possible to continue providing a 1:1 binary copy of RHEL.

Database giant Oracle Corporation has joined the scrum of companies commenting on Red Hat's move to tighten its hold on the source code for its enterprise Linux distribution, claiming it appeared to be driven by a desire to eliminate competitors.

Companies that are using CentOS 8 have three options open to them as they contemplate their next move in view of the fact that only a few months of support remain for this Linux distribution.