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That is, until RedHat completely fucked it to death.

Archive: https://archive.today/iigMU

From the post:

>INTERVIEW Gregory Kurtzer, CentOS's founder, tells the story of how the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone was born of a small group of rebuild hackers and Linux fans who were angry that Red Hat Enterprise Linux had replaced Red Hat Linux and convinced they could do better. Back in 2003, Linux fans were ticked off at Red Hat because they were replacing the end-user-friendly Red Hat Linux with the business-oriented Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It was a smart move for Red Hat, but users were pissed when then Red Hat CEO, Matthew Szulik, said that for home users, Windows was probably "the right product line." Yeah. That went over about as well as you'd expect.

That is, until RedHat completely fucked it to death. Archive: https://archive.today/iigMU From the post: >>INTERVIEW Gregory Kurtzer, CentOS's founder, tells the story of how the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone was born of a small group of rebuild hackers and Linux fans who were angry that Red Hat Enterprise Linux had replaced Red Hat Linux and convinced they could do better. Back in 2003, Linux fans were ticked off at Red Hat because they were replacing the end-user-friendly Red Hat Linux with the business-oriented Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It was a smart move for Red Hat, but users were pissed when then Red Hat CEO, Matthew Szulik, said that for home users, Windows was probably "the right product line." Yeah. That went over about as well as you'd expect.
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I always wondered why they changed it up to Rocky Linux. Rocky McGaugh was a co-founder who died. I tried searching for a couple minutes about that, but nothing more than that turned up. It's great that they memorialized him with the name like that.

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Yeah, I like it. I was a contributor like many to cent. I have not yet to rocky but will in the future. It's been working well for my personal projects so far.