Red꧒ Hat appears to be taking aim at two popular Linux distros that are co💮mmunity alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

In , Mike McGrath, Re✤d Hat VP of Core Platforms, announced that Red Hat is changing its policꦦy regarding public RHEL-related source code:

As the CentOS Stream commun𒈔ity grows and the enterprise software world tackles new dynamics, we want to sharpen our focus on CentOS Stream as the backbone of enterprise Linux innovation. We are continuing our investment in and increasing our commitment to CentOS Stream. CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases. For Red Hat customer꧂s and partners, source code will remain available via the Red Hat Customer Portal.

CentOS started out as a downstream, RHEL-compatible community enterprise distro. The project eventually joined Red Hat but remained independent. In 2020, however, Red Hat killed CentOS and announced CentOS Stream, a replacement option that is upstream of RHEL instead of downstream as the original CentOS was.

Cent⛎OS creator Gregory Kurtzer created Rocky Linux in response, and CloudLinux created AlmaLinux, both of which are RHEL-compatible downstream distros that fill the same role as the original CentOS.

Since Red Hat has no control over Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux, it appears the company is taking aim at them by restricting RHEL source code access to CentOS Stream. This will make it more difficult for Rocky and Alma to maintain the 1:1 compatibi🐽lity they currently have with RHEL.

Red Hat has certainly been making waves in the Linux community. In addition to its widely criticized CentOS decisions, the company recently168彩票: laid off Fedora Program Manager Ben Cotton. Fedora is the upstream community dist🌠ro for RH🐭EL and is a popular choice in the Linux desktop community.

With its latest decision, it’s a safe bet Red Hat will burn through much of whatever remaining goodwill it still had in the community.