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With the state of Red Hat putting its source behind a paywall and RockyLinux/AlmaLinux having to next what is next, what will happen with the future of eFa?

I am not asking abandon its current platforms for another Linux distro. My concern is regarding this application/solution’s future.

Right now the Company/Enterprise versions of Linux like Red Hat and Canonical are makings things more difficult with their limited choices or paywalls.

Look forward to the response….

RedHat's announcement caught a lot of people off guard, but since the initial flurry, it seems as through the community is finding ways forward. In particular, Rocky Linux has both policy and technical paths forward as they have written in their post at Keeping Open Source Open

While RedHat is publicly questioning the value (well, competition) of RHEL downstream distros, those distros and the community still see the value and are taking measures to continue them. We may need to focus more on what the downstream distros are able to do than on what RHEL would like the world to be and go from there

I like the RedHat ecosystem, however I've been using Debian 12 for a project lately, and I'm kind of liking it...
Thinking I might have a stab at recreating things on Debian to see what roadblocks I come up against at some stage in the future. I'm pretty sure the eFa build scripts can be tweaked to work just great on that platform.
The thing that makes me nervous around the RH family is the fact that it could collapse rather suddenly if the likes of Rocky doesn't succeed.
Anyway I don't have time to do anything crazy right now, so I'm building my filters with stock eFa on Rocky 8 for now, but the mail servers are all Debian 12/PostFix/Dovecot/RoundCube which is working well for me.

--Andrew