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by Pxtl 2025 days ago
Yeah, I assume this ends with somebody forking CentOS into another "redhat without redhat branding and license costs".
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There is already an announcement for Rocky Linux, from the same person who started CentOS, doing a Monty from MySQL.
Maybe CERN will revitalize Scientific Linux.
Scientific Linux[0] is still maintained ( Although, by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and not CERN )

[0] https://scientificlinux.org

Yes, maintained, but no new versions since they switched to CentOS.

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

There's no RHEL8 equivalent of Scientific Linux.