Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1

Re:Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1 by teruakohatu on Sunday June 20, 2021 @05:57AM (#27568609)

So are Red Hat source packages still available? What incentive does IBM have to make them available? The source code of the applications, sure. But why the source rpms?

Why doesn't Amazon and friends just make a dist that is not tied to Red Hat?

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Re:Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1 by sofixa on Sunday June 20, 2021 @06:14AM (#27568689)

> Why doesn't Amazon and friends just make a dist that is not tied to Red Hat?

Because RHEL is a known distro many vendors test for and allow. Having compatibility with it is a huge boon for adoption, since you can just use lots of software. If you do a distro from scratch, you're on your own.

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Re:Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1 by cpach on Sunday June 20, 2021 @07:37AM (#27569119)

This. Amazon probably believes that doing their own distro would be both harder and more expensive.

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Re:Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1 by viraptor on Sunday June 20, 2021 @07:53AM (#27569187)

Amazon is already releasing Amazon Linux AMIs which are similar to rhel, but you're not supposed to expect any compatibility. They're branching the behaviour off when needed.

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Re:Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1 by fomine3 on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:32AM (#27576844)

It's hard to know design about compatibility between Amazon Linux and RHEL. It seems that Amazon Linux no longer targets full RHEL/Fedora compatible, but it still support EPEL. Anyone know good documentation?

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