[bitcharmer]

I think we all knew this was coming when IBM acquired RedHat.

Does anyone know if the licensing is permissive enough to enable Centos spin-offs? If that's possible there's a decent chance some company will jump on it and fill the void.

[znpy]

One could pull the same trick that CentOS pulled: check-out all the sources, replace all the logos and trademarks and rebuild.

I honestly hope this is what's going to happen.

[macksd]

The original CentOS founder already announced his intention to do exactly that. I believe it's going to land here: https://github.com/hpcng/rocky. The thread about the CentOS Stream announcement yesterday had references to other efforts too.

[znpy]

That man is a treasure.

[swinglock]

https://lwn.net/Articles/786422/

That didn't age well. Maybe we'll see a Scientific Linux comeback.

[bayindirh]

I'm not sure that CERN would like to work on it full steam but, it'd be great though.

[speeder]

Theoretically, CentOS was the RHEL source release.

Now that this changed, I wonder, do RHEL sources are still available 100% identical to their binary? Or the announcement yesterday just broke GPL2 compliance?

[darkr]

CentOS is/was based upon RHEL.

In the same family of RHEL clone distros there is at least:

* Oracle (yuk)

* Scientific Linux (though I don't think they attempt to guarantee binary compatibility as CentOS does/did)

[bhouston]

Scientific Linux was discontinued early last year.