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An important omission here is that Amazon Linux 2 is based on RHEL 7, not RHEL 8. (At least, most of the userland is, they do use newer kernels.) Which means i
by em500 6y ago
An important omission here is that Amazon Linux 2 is based on RHEL 7, not RHEL 8. (At least, most of the userland is, they do use newer kernels.) Which means it's competing against CentOS 7, not 8 or Stream.
Curiously, Amazon only supports it till June 30, 2023, a year less than RHEL7/CentOS7. It will be interesting to see what they plan to do for Amazon Linux 3, with the latest CentOS news.
- noja 6y ago> It will be interesting to see what they plan to do for Amazon Linux 3 Rocky Linux from the CentOS creator looks promising: https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/rocky_linux/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/rocky_linux/ https://github.com/rocky-linux https://github.com/rocky-linux