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Donald Trump secured a financial victory when an appeals court on Thursday struck down a $464 million fraud penalty he was ordered to pay last year.

Sheridan Smith was unable to contain her emotions as she was interviewed on This Morning with the inspirational mother she portrays in the new ITV drama I Fought The Law.

Kanye West's actress ex Julia Fox has come out as pansexual a year after seemingly confirming she was a lesbian .

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The all-AI search mode Google introduced earlier this year has sprouted a one-trick AI agent – but only those willing to pay top dollar for the privilege.…

The Irishman was one of United's most successful captains ever and enjoyed a trophy-laden 12 seasons at the club between 1993 and 2005.

The Duchess of Sussex, 44, released her 2024 Napa Valley Rose on August 5 - but more than two weeks later, it is still available to buy on the website of her lifestyle brand, As ever.

Students returned to Maltings Academy and New Rickstones Academy in Witham to collect their all-important GCSE results.

SCHOOLS in Braintree have celebrated their Year 11's success after students arrived to collect their GCSE results this morning.

Miracle weight loss jabs could help ward off up to 12 obesity-related cancers, but world-leading experts are hesitant to label the jabs as a potential preventative treatment.

The Guildford pub bombings in 1974 (pictured) saw four young soldiers and a man killed. Now new scientific breakthroughs mean a number of prime suspects have been identified.

Latest Windows Insider Build puts time and language options in Settings

Microsoft has continued its efforts to nudge users toward the Windows Settings app from the venerable Control Panel, with language and time settings making the jump.…

A federal appeals court rejected T-Mobile's attempt to overturn $92 million in fines for selling customer location information to third-party firms. From a report: The Federal Communications Commission last year fined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon, saying the carriers illegally shared access to customers' location information without consent and did not take reasonable measures to protect that sensitive data against unauthorized disclosure. The fines relate to sharing of real-time location data that was revealed in 2018, but it took years for the FCC to finalize the penalties. The three carriers appealed the rulings in three different courts, and the first major decision was handed down Friday. A three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled unanimously against T-Mobile and its subsidiary Sprint. "Every cell phone is a tracking device," the ruling begins. "To receive service, a cell phone must periodically connect with the nearest tower in a wireless carrier's network. Each time it does, it sends the carrier a record of the phone's location and, by extension, the location of the customer who owns it. Over time, this information becomes an exhaustive history of a customer's whereabouts and 'provides an intimate window into [that] person's life.'"

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by George Whittaker

When Red Hat announced the abrupt end of traditional CentOS in late 2020, the Linux ecosystem was shaken to its core. Developers, sysadmins, and enterprises that relied on CentOS for years suddenly found themselves scrambling for answers. Out of that disruption, two projects, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, emerged to carry forward the legacy of CentOS while forging their own identities. This article dives into how these two distributions established themselves as reliable, enterprise-grade options for developers and organizations alike.

The Fall of CentOS: An Industry Shockwave

For over a decade, CentOS was the backbone of countless servers, from small web hosts to enterprise data centers. It provided a stable, free, and RHEL-compatible platform, perfect for developers and administrators building and maintaining critical infrastructure.

That stability came to an end when Red Hat pivoted CentOS to a rolling-release model, CentOS Stream. Instead of offering a downstream, binary-compatible version of RHEL, Stream became a preview of future RHEL updates. This move caused widespread frustration:

• Organizations that built production environments around CentOS suddenly faced shortened support lifecycles.

• Developers who depended on a “set-and-forget” environment now had to deal with the unpredictability of a rolling release.

• Compliance-driven industries were left in limbo, as running on an unsupported OS could trigger security and regulatory risks.

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

The Birth of AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux AlmaLinux: Community-Driven, Enterprise-Ready

Shortly after the CentOS announcement, CloudLinux, a company with deep experience in server environments, launched AlmaLinux. The first stable release landed in March 2021. True to its name, “alma” meaning “soul”, the project’s mission was clear: to embody the spirit of CentOS while maintaining community governance. The non-profit AlmaLinux OS Foundation now oversees the project, ensuring it remains free and open for everyone.

Rocky Linux: A Tribute and a Promise

At almost the same time, Gregory Kurtzer, one of the original CentOS founders, unveiled Rocky Linux, named in honor of CentOS co-founder Rocky McGaugh. From the beginning, Rocky positioned itself as a 1:1 binary-compatible rebuild of RHEL, mirroring CentOS’s original mission. Its governance structure, managed by the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF), ensures that the project remains rooted in community oversight rather than corporate ownership.

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Students from Honywood School in Coggeshall are celebrating their GCSE results.

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