works on old and new hardware
The generic images work on 64bit AMD/Intel CPUs and the kernel was compiled with a lot of hardware support meaning it should work on old and new servers, old and new desktop PCs as well as old a new notebooks. Testing was done on several older laptops from various vendors (HP, Dell, Lenovo), a few desktop PCs (with Intel and AMD CPUs), VMs running on Dell Poweredge servers (R320, R630, etc) with hardware from various vendors. (Notice the use of the word should rather than will. That is because the hardware the distro was confirmed to work with is not all the existing hardware in the world.)
costs nothing
It is free for personal and business use (keep in mind that all software that you install on it comes with its own license and for some software that license is not free)
you can trust
The way it is built is made publicly available together with all the instructions you need to reproduce, it does not call home (there are no hidden agents and there is no data collected about users), there is no need for any sort of sign-up / registration to use it and provides packages built from the same sources as packages released by established / trusted Linux distributions.
is RPM based with a Linux from scratch core using Gentoo and Fedora coolness (it feels familiar somehow because it was built to feel like that )
The distribution is bootstrapped by following the LFS/BLFS guide, then RPM and DNF support is added, then the actual packages are built with inspiration and code from LFS/BLFS, Gentoo and Fedora
is more than yet another fork with a twist
GentOS is not a fork of any Linux distribution. It is built from scratch to provide the same tools and libraries and services we all are familiar with (for example: grub, Apache, Python, etc) as well as extra ones which some mainstream distributions decided to move away from (for example: sysvinit). (the initial build is started inside a Ubuntu 22.04 chroot-ed environment but the same build will work inside a chroot on other Unix/Linux distributions)