AlmaLinux 9

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71 points·jaboutboul··11 comments

For anyone lost, CentOS has become a rolling RHEL preview, and Alma is a CentOS fork to bring back stable releases.

How does rocky fit into the picture? What’s different between Rocky and Alma?

It’s a competitor/alternative to Alma with a slower moving development team.

Why would you _not_ join forces on such an effort? Do they have different approaches?

As per my understanding - They differ in how their organisations are structured. Alma is mostly backed and supported by CloudLinux Inc, for whom, CentOS formed the basis of their commercial software. Rocky is a more grassroots affair - founded by some of the original CentOS founders.

I’ve not used either distribution yet, so I cannot comment on how their documentation and community differ.

I used CentOS 8 as OS on my dev machine and my VDS. After EOL I migrated to AlmaLinux 8. I don't feel any changes by compare with CentOS and it's important for me. I'm planning to migrate to AL 9 when upstream (RHEL) adds the modules to OS.

I have migrated to CentOS streams and it has been a nice and solid experience so far,

I think I am getting a bit tired of trying to track the latest clone distro and made peace with the fact that CentOS streams is maybe not exactly the same RHEL but still a stable server distro.

Already downloaded and putting it through its paces, looking good so far. Great work!

I'm using rocky linux since the last CentOS drama, this seems to be the same, why both teams are not joining efforts to make this even more viable?

Very nice system. Migrated to AL8 from CentOS8. Only positive impressions

That was fast. Too early to adopt for me, but the speed is encouraging.

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