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Re:Rocky Linux releases its first release candidate by Tsiklon on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:30PM (#27304948)
Amazon Linux 2 is built on CentOS 7.

AWS are a sponsor of Rocky Linux

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Re:Rocky Linux releases its first release candidate by chessmango on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:04PM (#27308534)
Don't think this is the case. It's downstream of RHEL but with a bunch of liberties, so CentOS/Rocky doesn't change much there
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Re:Rocky Linux releases its first release candidate by mrweasel on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:43PM (#27305094)
I guess they’re kinda forced to. Switch to Ubuntu or Debian for Amazon Linux 3 would be weird, but perhaps a smart choice.
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Re:Rocky Linux releases its first release candidate by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:13PM (#27305444)
They could do their own Fedora downstream, or jump to openSUSE for a different stable RPM distro.
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Re:Rocky Linux releases its first release candidate by jacobr1 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:22PM (#27305583)
The could just do their own RHEL fork, which would make Amazon Linux a peer to rocky instead of a downstream.
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Re:Rocky Linux releases its first release candidate by mrweasel on Thursday May 27, 2021 @02:05PM (#27306146)
They could have done that from the start, like Oracle, but they choose not to for a reason, most likely to save money.

So now they either have to support Rocky Linux, and hope others do to, or pay the full cost of maintaining a RHEL compatible distro.

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Re:Rocky Linux releases its first release candidate by sparc24 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:30PM (#27307133)
Looking at all your comments in this thread and you really don't know what you are talking about. Just spreading FUD.

RHEL7 is the upstream for AL2 and there is a LOT of heavy lifting done by AWS. Newer kernel, newer toolchain, newer glibc. They do live patching. They actually test all sorts of workloads before even a minor errata update. They took OpenSSL 1.0.2 through FIPS validation with NIST.

Just stop talking.

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