TechHQ Reviews CentOS Alternatives as End-of-Life Approaches

This piece from TechHQ looks at alternatives to CentOS, the former Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone that was purchased, then scheduled to transition into a rolling-release distribution. Since businesses rely on the stability of a more regular (and often conservative) release schedule, the change in CentOS signaled the end of an alternative server OS that was both free and compatible with RHEL. Coupled with a change by Red Hat making RHEL source code available only in customer portals rather than a publicly-available GitHub repository, a number of companies including SuSE, Oracle, and CIQ formed the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) to create a new enterprise Linux platform.