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Re:Amazon Linux 2023 by mobilio on Friday March 17, 2023 @07:12AM (#35195485)
And... it's built based on RedHat's Fedora.

Few years ago it was built on top of Debian.

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Re:Amazon Linux 2023 by switch007 on Friday March 17, 2023 @07:51AM (#35195792)
> Few years ago it was built on top of Debian.

I don't think it's ever had anything to do with Debian? It was RHEL-like/RHEL-compatible (and now Fedora) AFAIK

https://readwrite.com/amazons-linux-ami-is-all-grown/

https://serverfault.com/questions/798427/what-linux-distribu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Machine_Image#Amazon_Li...

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Re:Amazon Linux 2023 by mooreds on Friday March 17, 2023 @07:52AM (#35195801)
Are you sure of that? I thought Amazon Linux was always red hat based (mostly because of yum usage).

More here: https://serverfault.com/questions/798427/what-linux-distribu...

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Re:Amazon Linux 2023 by znpy on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:29PM (#35202476)
> Few years ago it was built on top of Debian.

no it wasn't. Amazon Linux2 was a CentOS/RHEL 7 derivative.

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