The Rise of Rocky Linux

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Some of this we did cover with Greg way back in episode 427. And it was the rise of Rocky Linux. We haven't talked to Greg or Gregory since then. That was 2021. It was January 2021 when Rocky first came out. Now we're here now with sources being withheld and Rocky and Alma being, you know, in quotes, the bad guys because they're just recompilers or redistributors essentially like you had mentioned before. Meanwhile, hanging back here is, is Oracle, you know. The whole time they've been doing things 50 times worse by many people's standards.

Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it.

Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as Jeff Geerling, so we invited him on the show to discuss.

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