Benchmarking against RHEL	AlmaLinux	Oracle Linux	Rocky Linux	CentOS Stream	CentOS Linux
Production Version	Since March 2021	Since 2006	Since June 2021	Since 2019	Since 2004
RHEL compatibility	ABI Compatible	ABI Compatible? (opens new window)	Binary compatible	Compatible within the limits of the ACG (opens new window)	Binary Compatible
Regular updates delay	About 1 business day	About 1 business day	About 1 business day	Upstream of RHEL	About 1 business day
Last minor version release delay	1 day (opens new window)	7 days (opens new window)	5 days (opens new window)	N/A	N/A
Errata	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Lifecycle	10 Years	10 Years	10 Years	5-6 Years	EOL on 2021-12-31
Commercial support	3rd party	Oracle, 3rd parties	3rd Party	3rd party	3rd party
Livepatching service	KernelCare	Oracle Ksplice, KernelCare Available	KernelCare Available	Not available	KernelCare, Kpatch
FIPS compliance	Planned	Yes	Planned	Not available	Not available
ARM support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
IBM PowerPC support	Yes	No	Yes (versions ≥ 9)	Yes	Yes
IBM Z (s390x) support	Yes	No	Yes (versions ≥ 9)	No	No
SecureBoot	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Owned By:	AlmaLinux OS Foundation	Oracle Inc	Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation	Red Hat Inc	Red Hat Inc
Owned by org type:	Non-Profit 501(c)6	For Profit C-Corp	For Profit, Public Benefit Corp	For Profit C-Corp	For Profit C-Corp