bennyvasquez

You're absolutely right, and we're actually working on that. We're bringing it back into alignment with the next generation. We talked about that a little bit here: https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-01-31-elevate-updates/

The AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee acts as the central meeting point for collaboration between everyone working on anything related to the AlmaLinux Project. By having open discussions and inviting viewpoints from everyone that touches AlmaLinux, we ensure AlmaLinux continues to serve its community.

That's a bummer! I know there's a few places that have used it on the 50k+ scale, so once the kinks for your environment, it should be great. If there's anything that can be done to improve the script, we'd love to help! Feel free to join the chat and share what's up in ~migrations.

AlmaLinux matches releases and versions with RHEL. More clarification in this 2-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNMnajmyLaA

AlmaLinux matches releases and versions with RHEL. More clarification in this 2-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNMnajmyLaA

Our primary difference: a 10-year lifecycle, with a focus on stability.

I'd say that your use case for CentOS might have been vendor compliance, but our user base doesn't agree that's the only use case.

I'd recommend listening to this podcast with Neal Gompa about Red Hat vs IBM at this point:

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/27/floss-weekly-episode-763-fed...

A week after RHEL 8.9

Sure! That's likely an accurate representation. I also just gave this talk that goes a bit deeper, if that's helpful/interesting: https://youtu.be/Jjda39dlu7I

Built entirely without RHEL sRPMs

Current Chef employee here. Progress has stated they expect to continue to support the Chef Open Source commitment, so Cinc should be business as usual.

Side note: As the Progress is publicly traded, there were some super strict guidelines around who could know about the transaction and when. From what I understand, pretty much no one could know, primarily because of the risk of insider trading.