Hi,
It seems to me that one of the simplest solutions could be to become independent with the best possible compatibility.
Red Hat will do everything to close it, especially it seems to me that this is a strong message from Red Hat which leaves our hearts a little more day after day.
Best Regards
I’m quite happy to see AlmaLinux going this way I think it will be great for the EL community!
We were using AlmaLinux since 2 years now as a replacement for CentOS. The release of AlmaLinux 9.2 only hours after RHEL 9.2 was mindblowing and once again confirmed that the decision was right.
But this is a dark day in the history of AlmaLinux: “the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL.” (AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System).
Thanks, but no thanks. We need 1:1 RHEL-compatibility and therefore going to switch to another distribution.
One year on, where do we stand on this? Can someone please summarize how Alma is now progressing and whether it is guaranteed to have at the very least same level of stability / interfaces as RHEL ?
Since 1:1 compatibility has been dropped, how does it affect rpm availability and integration into Alma ? Will an installation now have to find Alma specific rpms instead of RHEL rpms to install ? I hope not since the ABI compatibility is still present. But iamnot sure if that is sufficient
Thank you
@Fireakingen what did you end up picking instead of Alma ? Sounds like Alma is doing everything possible to remain compatible with RHEL.
What does your alternate distribution if any, do different, which you like?
AFAIK, no effect. If there are differences on package(name)s, they are of sort that rebuilds have always had and for example the CentOS did fine despite that.
Think positive; AlmaLinux is no longer forced to have all the bugs that RHEL has.
On the Microsoft side, the removal of CentOS (since it’s effectively “dead”) from 1st tier supported Linux in the Microsoft/Azure ecosystem has meant either paying the RHEL (higher than Windows) price tag or moving to supported Ubuntu there.
While I know there was a recent “rah rah” about AlmaLinux and Microsoft/Azure, it’s not a 1st tier supported platform in the Microsoft system currently. It would be nice if it were to become one. For those of us that have to live Microsoft/Azure anyhow.
My point is that it wasn’t too terribly long ago that CentOS was a 1st tier supported Linux distro by Microsoft (MDATP, Azure, etc.). Perhaps because of (something) from Red Hat??? Right now, it’s just RHEL, SLES and Ubuntu that Microsoft considers “worthy” of their stacks. Would love to see AlmaLinux added to their list. Right now, while you can install it in Azure, MDATP doesn’t understand it fully (for example), which leaves us in Microsoft-land either paying higher than Windows-Server prices for RHEL or SLES… or, I expect is most cases, using Ubuntu.