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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future (openela.org)

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CIQ (Rocky Linux), Oracle, and SUSE announce a new trade association dedicated to providing source code for building RHEL compatible distributions.

The formation of OpenELA arises from Red Hat's recent changes to RHEL source code availability.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not aware. Can you give more detail on why CentOS came to exist?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

RedHat originally had one distribution called “RedHat Linux”, not to be confused with RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

RedHat Linux was free, you can buy support if you want, and there was also RedHat Advanced Server, which was a paid subscription.

In 2002, the company rebranded Advanced Sever to RHEL and discontinued RedHat Linux, pissing off a lot of people off.

This started people working on multiple binary compatible distributions, the one that dominated the market was CentOS.

20 years later, the cycle is repeating.