FYI, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 is now officially available to Red Hat customers as stable.
Not sure how long the downstream will take to go stable. -Ernie. > Hi all, > > RedHat released the Beta of the upcoming RedHat Enterprise Linux 9: > > https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2021/11/03/red-hat-enterprise-linux-9-beta-here > > I've grabbed a copy of the DVDs and will play with them in the next > couple of days to get an early start on the development of a BlueOnyx > version for it. The next free number is 5211R, so that's what it'll > probably get. > > With things being what they are with RedHat and CentOS we'll have to see > what kind of roadmap they have planned. It is likely that RedHat 9 will > be the stable release and that CentOS 9 will be their unstable > rolling-release testbed and that will just not be stable enough to base > critical infrastructure on. > > But we can expect that (again) the guys at AlmaLinux and RockyLinux will > jump to the rescue and will provide true and just rebranded 1:1 carbon > copies for RHEL 9 sometime down the road. Same as they did for RHEL 8 > when CentOS 8 was repurposed by their RedHat masters. > > So BlueOnyx 5211R will most likely not be made with CentOS 9 in mind, > but rather an upcoming AlmaLinux 9 or RockyLinux 9. > > Either way: I'll get started on BlueOnyx 5211R and we'll see where it > goes. If you hear loud grumbling and a frequent uttering of the German > word "SCHEISSE!" from somewhere near the equator? That'll be me, again > chasing more than 300 critically needed RPM dependencies that the RedHat > 9 beta repositories don't carry yet. :p > > -- > With best regards > > Michael Stauber > _______________________________________________ > Blueonyx mailing list > Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it > http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx