Just an update, name of the project will be "Lenix", and I missedin announcement that unlike CentOS they plan to publish all the build tools and environment so other clones can be built even if they stray, a very commendable approach. On 12/10/20 8:05 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Someone is smarter then Red Hat/IBM, "Carpe Diem": > > Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux > > (https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-community-driven-rhel-fork-by-cloudlinux) > > CentOS is a fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and undoubtedly a > popular choice to deploy on production servers because of its rock-solid > stability and compatibility. But, now with CentOS Stream, Red Hat just > killed CentOS as we know it. And as expected, people started to fork Red > Hat to give a viable community-based alternative to RHEL. > > > > As we already maintain CloudLinux OS, we plan to release a free, > open-sourced, community-driven, 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL® 8 > (and future releases) in the Q1 of 2021. We will create a separate, > totally free OS that is fully binary compatible with RHEL® 8 (and future > versions). We will sponsor the development & maintenance of such OS. We > will work on establishing a community around the OS, with the governing > board from members of the community. > > > Why We Are Doing It > > We have all the infrastructure, software and experience to do that > already. We have a large staff of developers and maintainers that have a > decade of experience in building an RHEL fork, starting from RHEL5 to RHEL8. > We expect that this project will put us on the map, and allow people > to discover our rebootless update software and Extended Lifecycle > Support offering. > > > > What Will We Do To Make Sure That It Doesn't Go Wrong > > We plan to make all the build and test software free, open-sourced, easy > to set up, so if we ever go in the wrong direction - the community can > just pick up where we left off. > > > What It Means For You > > If you are running CloudLinux OS 8 - it will continue to have stable and > well-tested updates until 2029, and ELS releases for years after that. > > > > If you are running CentOS 8 - we will release an OS very similar to > CentOS 8 based on RHEL 8 stable. We will provide stable and well-tested > updates until 2029 - completely free. You will be able to convert from > CentOS 8 at any moment by running a single command that switches > repositories & keys. > > > Timeline > > Q1 2021 > > -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant