Another CentOS/RHEL fork has been announced. CloudLinux plans to release an open-sourced and community-driven RHEL fork in the first quarter of 2021. 

Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux

CentOS is a fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and undoubtedly a popular choice to deploy on production servers because of its rock-solid stability and compatibility. But, now with CentOS Stream, Red Hat just killed CentOS as we know it. And as expected, people started to fork Red Hat to give a viable community-based alternative to RHEL.

As we already maintain CloudLinux OS, we plan to release a free, open-sourced, community-driven, 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL 8 (and future releases) in the Q1 of 2021. We will create a separate, totally free OS that is fully binary compatible with RHEL 8 (and future versions). We will sponsor the development & maintenance of such OS. We will work on establishing a community around the OS, with the governing board from members of the community. 

Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux