After Red Hat discontinued the free RHEL clone CentOS in its current form, alternatives for CentOS users are increasingly emerging. CentOS co-founder Greg Kurtzer quickly started a new RHEL clone called Rocky Linux as a community project, which, like CentOS, is to follow the release frequency of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Now CloudLinux Inc., developer of the CentOS-based CloudLinux OS for shared hosting providers, has also announced a free RHEL clone. Project Lenix is ​​said to be in the first quarter as free, open source and at 100 percent Binary compatible community distribution with RHEL 8 will be published.

Migration without downtime You would like your own developers and resources as well as the Invest many years of experience in maintaining your own RHEL clone. Last but not least, CLoudLinux expects more visibility for its own commercial Linux distribution. Current CentOS users are promised an easy changeover to Lenix without downtime. The company has already developed a technology for updating without rebooting for its own CloudLinux.

CentOS started 2004 as a community project , which creates a RHEL-compatible Linux distribution from the freely available RHEL source packages, which Red Hat provides free of charge under the GPL. The compiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux is only available as a subscription to paying customers. 2014 CentOS and Red Hat merged. Since then, every new RHEL version has been followed by a CentOS version that dispenses with trademarked content and certified security policies from Red Hat. CentOS offers the stability and features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but can be used on any number of computers without a subscription.

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