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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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