Changes to Red Hat's Source Code Policies and their Impact on SolusVM

Applicable to:

• SolusVM 2
• SolusVM

Situation

Changes to Red Hat's Source Code Policies and their Impact on SolusVM

Impact

This communication is to address the announcement made by Red Hat regarding significant changes to its source code policies. This news was unexpected in the open-source and web hosting worlds and has raised concerns regarding the feasibility of rebuilds and forks of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

SolusVM comprehends the significance of this development and is closely monitoring key organizations to ensure the provision of the most current solutions in the wake of these changes.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation Board of Directors, in their public statement, affirmed their continued support for the AlmaLinux project as a stable and secure Operating System. Similarly, Rocky Linux expressed confidence in its ability to continue delivering a stable and secure OS.

SolusVM supports AlmaLinux 8 until 2029, as per the current vendor's End of Life (EOL) date.

Recommendations

SolusVM v1:

Migrate Master running on Centos 7/8 Stream to server with Almalinux.

Migrate VPSes running on Centos 7/8 Stream nodes to Almalinux nodes.

SolusVM v2:

Migrate Management node running on Centos 7/8 Stream server to Almalinux 8 or to server running supported debian-based OSes(Debian 10/11/12, Ubuntu 18/20/22)

Migrate VPSes running on Centos 7/8 Stream Compute Resources to Almalinux/Rockylinux or to Compute resources running supported debian-based OSes. Check the full list of supported OSes for Compute Resources here.