VirtualBox requires the guest additions to do integrated mouse. Those GA are not included in any RHEL9 clone, not even RHEL 9 itself so any rebuild of RHEL 9 will be lacking mouse integration in VBox. It's not unexpected.
Rocky Linux 9 and its new build service enter the ring
The Rocky Linux Project has released version 9 of its RHEL-compatible distro and debuted its new build service. Rocky Linux 9, codenamed "Blue Onyx", is here at last, some two months after the upstream distro on whose source code it is based. Its progenitor, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, was announced on May 10. The best-known …
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Monday 18th July 2022 17:25 GMT VoiceOfTruth
Red Hat/Oracle
-> Red Hat was not altogether happy about Oracle Linux, which is fair enough: some interpreted the release of Oracle Linux in 2006 as an attempt to undercut Red Hat's support revenues and cause share prices to drop.
Well great big bolshy yarblockos to Red Hat. Red Hat's support IS expensive. Don't like the competition heat? Get out the kitchen or provide demonstrably more value for the greater price.
I'm not a great fan of Oracle or Red Hat, but Red Hat is hardly the white knight in shining armour.
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Tuesday 19th July 2022 06:49 GMT Zolko
I don't get it
I don't use RedHat or any of its RPM derivatives, having been bitten by the RPM-hell back in the days, and now using only Debian-based Linuxes, but isn't this sort of RedHat rebuild a rip-off ? Yes I know it's all open-source and the like, but what's the point ? If it's a rebuilt, it's not RedHat ... it might be compatible, but what's the guarantee ?
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Tuesday 19th July 2022 09:45 GMT Liam Proven
Re: I don't get it
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Yes, it is a rip-off, in its way, but it's a type of rip-off that RH has vacillated between hindering, then encouraging, then endorsing, then killing, then encouraging again. It *is* confusing.
If I try to explain this, it will take thousands of words. That's an article, not a comment.
Is that worth doing? Is this something people want to read? Let me know.
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Sunday 24th July 2022 21:54 GMT chuckufarley
So I am a week late to the party...
...But I am slow. It took me more than 6 decades to get old.
I downloaded the "minimal" .iso to install in a VM and it's 1.4 GB in size.
@Liam Proven If you can explain how a minimal .iso reaches that size it would be good. On a "slow" internet connection I could download and compile a minimal Gentoo install in less time then it would take to download the full release .iso for RHEL/Rocky.