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Red Hat withdraws from the Free Software Foundation after Stallman’s return

Enlarge Last week, Richard M. Stallman—father of the GNU Public License that underpins Linux and a significant part of the user-facing software that initially accompanied the Linux kernel—returned to the board of the Free Software Foundation after a two-year hiatus due to his own highly controversial remarks about his perception of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims as “entirely willing.” As […]

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Rocky Linux gets a parent company, with $4m Series A funding

Enlarge / Ctrl IQ provided us with this diagram of its proposed technology stack. (Thankfully, spelling correction is not one of the core services Ctrl IQ offers.) (credit: Ctrl IQ) Gregory Kurtzer, co-founder of the now-defunct CentOS Linux distribution, has founded a new startup company called Ctrl IQ which will serve in part as a […]

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CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers

Enlarge / CentOS used to be the preferred way to get RHEL compatibility at no cost. CentOS is gone now—but Red Hat is extending no-cost options for RHEL further than ever before. (credit: Red Hat / DFCisneros) Last month, Red Hat caused a lot of consternation in the enthusiast and small business Linux world when […]

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CentOS Linux is dead–and Red Hat States Stream is”not a replacement”

Expand / Appears like CentOS Linux will probably be sleeping with the fishes. (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Getty Images) On Tuesday, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright along with CentOS Community Manager Rich Bowen every single declared that a Huge shift in the near long run and operate of CentOS Linux. Moving ahead, there’ll not […]