This disruption created a vacuum, and the Linux community quickly stepped up to fill it.

Red Hat may no longer support old-style CentOS Linux, but other groups have forked CentOS and now they're offering technical support. This now includes CIQ offering support services for Rocky Linux.

CIQ, the company behind a new open-source enterprise Linux distribution called Rocky Linux, has raised $26 million.

Where do I go now that CentOS Linux is gone? Check our list CentOS was the most famous “RHEL rebuild” by far—but there are others.

RHEL is now free for dev teams, and it’s even free in production for up to 16 systems.