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The world's second-biggest open source company, SUSE, has a solution to offer those firms that are using CentOS 7, an enterprise Linux distribution that reaches its end of life on 30 June.

The organisation that builds Rocky Linux, an enterprise Linux distribution that emerged in the wake of Red Hat's decision to block availability of its source code to the public, has announced an initiative called CIQ Bridge which it describes as "a lifeline for enterprises still using CentOS Linux 7".

The ELevate project at AlmaLinux, one of the main distributions that aim to provide a replacement for CentOS, has been expanded to provide support for those who wish to migrate from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7.

After the recent changes in source code availability enforced by the IBM-owned Red Hat, enterprise Linux is likely to take a different path to that which it was following when the standard was being a downstream rebuild of RHEL, the chair of AlmaLinux OS Foundation, one of the distributions that sprang up after Red Hat discontinued CentOS, says.

Red Hat's recent decision, to make it more difficult for others to gain access to the source code for its enterprise Linux, has resulted in three companies joining to try and nullify the impact of this change.

IBM-owned open source vendor Red Hat initially rejected a patch for a vulnerability in iperf3 which was submitted by a developer of RHEL clone AlmaLinux, only agreeing to merge it after a lot of jaw.

The chairman of the board at AlmaLinux, one of the distributions that sprang up after Red Hat discontinued CentOS, has admitted that it would not be possible to continue providing a 1:1 binary copy of RHEL.

Database giant Oracle Corporation has joined the scrum of companies commenting on Red Hat's move to tighten its hold on the source code for its enterprise Linux distribution, claiming it appeared to be driven by a desire to eliminate competitors.

German open source vendor SUSE has said it will invest more than US$10 million (A$14.97 million) to fork the publicly available source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and make it available to world+dog with no restrictions.

The third stage has been reached in camouflaging open source vendor Red Hat's new curbs on access to the source code for its enterprise Linux distribution.

Rocky Linux, a project set up by the founder of the CentOS project, Gregory Kurtzer, has outlined what it says are ways to legally obtain source code for Red Hat's enterprise Linux distribution, following that company's 21 June announcement about fresh curbs on access to the source.

German open source vendor SUSE says it will not be making any changes to its policies on source code access, emphasising "that the freedom to access, modify, and distribute software should remain open to all".

Any time a company has to issue a "clarification" to an announcement it has made, it is generally intended to make what was an unpalatable change seem the opposite.

ANALYSIS Open source vendor Red Hat appears to have decided to make it more difficult for anyone to gain access to the source code for RHEL, its enterprise Linux distribution, from now on.

An attempt by long-time Red Hat employee Karsten Wade to mollify those who are upset over the killing of CentOS appears to have only made people angrier, judging by the responses to his post.

Less than a year and a half after it was bought by IBM, the biggest open source company Red Hat has killed off CentOS, once an independent project but since January 2014 a part of Red Hat itself.