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AlmaLinux project climbs down from being a one-to-one RHEL clone

, and while you're at it, all the other Sun code that you no longer sell. We suspect that because the company already offers its own variant kernel for its RHEL clone, it feels that it can continue with business as usual. It seems possible that future Oracle Linux releases will switch to only offering Oracle's UEK, its Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, and quietly drop the Red Hat Compatible Kernel, or RHCK, package.

Putting these things together, it could be that what's going to happen is this: Oracle Linux continues, but henceforth offers only its own kernel build, the UEK. If Rocky's clever cloud-VM-instance route is cut off, it may be getting ready to switch to a SUSE-built kernel.

No other Linux distribution has exact replicas out there in production use quite like this, although the relationship between openSUSE Leap and SLE comes very close, especially since SUSEEven so, Red Hat's move continues to anger a great many people in the wider FOSS community.

Overall, as well as being good for Red Hat's profits, at least in the short term, we think that this will be good for the greater enterprise Linux market and ecosystem. It could turn out to be beneficial for SUSE and for Canonical, but we also hope to see it result in more investment in, and sponsorship of, Debian and its financial backer,

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