OpenELA is a non-profit trade association of open source Enterprise Linux distribution developers.

There are many Linux Distributions that are perfectly suitable for enterprise use cases and environments. For the purpose of this charter and project, OpenELA recognizes “Enterprise Linux” (EL) as 1:1 and bug-for-bug source code compatibility which today is aligned to RHEL and CentOS.

OpenELA’s mission is to provide a secure, transparent, and reliable Enterprise Linux source that is globally available to all as a buildable base.

OpenELA is a collaboration created and upheld by CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE.

Read the recent article on the formation of OpenELA by Richard Speed at The Register

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  • @ericjmorey
    3•8 months ago

    why would they go with openELA instead of Debian

    CentOS(original)/Alma Linux/Rocky Linux, and Oracle Linux are based on RHEL They’ve been in use for a while.

    openELA is removing the rhel costumers

    I’m not sure what you’re referring to here.

    • @[email protected]
      1•8 months ago

      I’m not sure what you’re referring to here.

      people going to openELA instead of RHEL, and giving less money for redhat, basicly what i said

      CentOS(original)/Alma Linux/Rocky Linux, and Oracle Linux are based on RHEL They’ve been in use for a while.

      that why red hat limited the source code, and to be fair, i kinda agree with them, rocky, alma and oracle are gaining money on top of rhel meanwhile who pay the devs and fixes the issue are redhat

      • @ericjmorey
        1•8 months ago

        RHEL has already agreed to giving the source code to anyone they distribute their software to. It doesn’t matter if they no longer like that agreement. They are bound by it because they willingly entered into it. RHEL doesn’t make money by selling their software. They make money by consulting to companies that want to use the software and augment that software for their needs.