Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez wrote:
> After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has
> decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead
> aim to be Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatible*

So this is now a significant difference between AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, 
which were previously basically two of the same.

Rocky Linux is intent on keeping 1:1 compatibility by obtaining RHEL sources 
through undocumented (by RH), but apparently legal (at least according to 
Rocky), tricks:

https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/

and has reaffirmed this in their forums in light of the AlmaLinux 
announcement:

https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/has-red-hat-just-killed-rocky-linux/10378/195

        Kevin Kofler
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