This is the best summary I could come up with:

The main players among the RHEL rebuilders have caught up… but it’s possibly too soon to tell if this market is going to survive Red Hat’s moves.

The aim of the CentOS Linux rebuilds was always to be as close to a recompiled version of RHEL as humanly possible, just with the serial numbers filed off names changed.

Red Hat, as we have noted before, lives on its own small but very luxurious island in the Linux ocean, paying little heed to the goldfish shoals nibbling at its toes.

Shortly before announcing version 9.3, Oracle also launched release 7 update 2 of what it calls its Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK).

This release includes support for In-Band authentication for NVMe drives in storage fabrics, and for AMD’s Last Branch Record Extension Version 2, plus better handling of SYN flood attacks.

If it follows the normal RHEL lifecycle, release 9 should last until version 9.10 in 2027, and we are sure that the rebuilds will try to keep up with it… but along with source-code availability, end-of-life dates can suddenly and unexpectedly change.

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