Cameron Knauff's RHEL clone breakdown, as of July 2025: Rocky Linux is the only bug-for-bug rebuild, AlmaLinux and Oracle Linux are binary compatible, and CentOS Stream sits upstream with a 5-year life cycle. AlmaLinux 10 shipped 7 days after RHEL 10, Rocky 10 took 23, and Oracle 10 took 47. AlmaLinux 10 also has an x86_64_v2 repo for older CPUs that RHEL 10 dropped.
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