Rather than fight with Red Hat over whether the IBM subsidiary could restrict the use of its RHEL code, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board, Vasquez wrote, "decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL.

In 2018, Red Hat, knowing a good thing when it saw one, bought CoreOS for a song, $250 million. From CoreOS, Red Hat created three other significant Linux distros.

To understand what’s happening here, we need to go back a few years. In late 2020, Red Hat made a crucial change to CentOS Linux (the Community Enterprise Linux Operating System).

Of course, using Fedora comes at a great price: it is free to download. On Nov. 13, Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 with improved functionality in deploying applications and more ...

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container ...

AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux have vowed to get the source code they need from sources other than Red Hat. And Red Hat's big Linux competitor, SUSE, wants to come up with a new RHEL competitor too.

Using Red Hat in any scenario requires registering your license and a "much, much more involved process," Vasquez said. Red Hat, Rock, and AlmaLinux all look a bit different after the source code ...

Over the years, Red Hat has become one of the largest Linux providers to a wide variety of industries. The company was acquired by IBM IBM -0.1% in 2018.

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations on AWS ...