Is Almalinux RHCK(Red Hat Compatible Kernel)

General Discussion & Chat
1

Hi Team,

I would like to know is AlmaLinux provides Red Hat Compatible Kernel? I couldnt see anything in the documentation about it. Please let me know.

Thanks,
Venkat

2

What do you mean by ā€œcompatible kernelā€?

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yes it is the exact same kernel, not like oracle ā€œunbreakableā€ kernel which is totally different.

see:

$ uname -a
Linux alma8podman 4.18.0-348.12.2.el8_5.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 19 14:35:04 EST 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
AlmaLinux release 8.5 (Arctic Sphynx)

versus:

$ uname -a
Linux rhel8repo 4.18.0-348.12.2.el8_5.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jan 17 07:06:06 EST 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.5 (Ootpa)