»Red Hat is establishing a small team directly responsible for participating in EPEL activities. «

Virtuozzo Linux is another alternative to RHEL/CentOS 8.4.

Rocky Linux 8.4, bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, is now generally available. The Rocky Linux community also provides a tool to aid the conversation from the 8.4 versions of Alma Linux, CentOS, RHEL, and Oracle Linux.

CentOS 8 (2105), based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 source code, was released.

The first stable version of Almalinux, a binary-compatible drop-in replacement for CentOS, is available.

»The Individual Developer subscription for RHEL can be used in production for up to 16 systems.«

AlmaLinux is a new RHEL fork, with its first release planned within Q1, 2021.

»Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux, now that CentOS has shifted direction.«

»CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end of 2021. CentOS Stream continues after that date, serving as the upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.«

CentOS Linux 8 (2011), derived from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.3 source code, was released.