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the wake of the sudden demise of CentOS, a number of poorly written articles appeared on the web purporting to answer the complex question of “What can I use now that CentOS is gone?” in simple, SEO-friendly, oft’ listicleised form. We hope to do better here, and while we do hope you give Rocky Linux a try we really don’t want you to feel pressured into nixing your long-running CentOS machines so early in the game. There’s a summary of most of the other RHEL-derived distros in the box (), and thanks to them all aping RHEL (the goal is to be bug-for-bug compatible, remember) they

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