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The could just do their own RHEL fork, which would make Amazon Linux a peer to rocky instead of a downstream.
by jacobr1 5y ago
The could just do their own RHEL fork, which would make Amazon Linux a peer to rocky instead of a downstream.
- mrweasel 5y agoThey could have done that from the start, like Oracle, but they choose not to for a reason, most likely to save money. So now they either have to support Rocky Linux, and hope others do to, or pay the full cost of maintaining a RHEL compatible distro.
- sparc24 5y agoLooking at all your comments in this thread and you really don't know what you are talking about. Just spreading FUD. RHEL7 is the upstream for AL2 and there is a LOT of heavy lifting done by AWS. Newer kernel, newer toolchain, newer glibc. They do live patching. They actually test all sorts of workloads before even a minor errata update. They took OpenSSL 1.0.2 through FIPS validation with NIST. Just stop talking.