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Does anyone know how AlmaLinux compares to Rocky Linux?

• bydo 5y ago
  Alma seems more of a corporate thing compared to Rocky being community supported. I have both deployed and they both work fine. Alma seems faster to update, though this is RHEL, not Arch. Alma also has a shell script that will convert other RHEL based distros to it automagically, which is pretty cool.
  • sascha_sl 5y ago
    If updates are a priority, you might actually be the right audience for CentOS Stream.
    • hda111 5y ago
      Does it receive security updates faster than RHEL?
      • dralley 5y ago
        Security updates, no. RHEL still gets those first due to embargoes. Bugfixes and support for newer hardware, yes.
  • iseletsk 5y ago
    AlmaLinux is 501c6 non-profit, community based. RockyLinux is owned by Greg/his corporation.
  • bclemens 5y ago
    Rocky Linux also has a conversion script available https://rockylinux.org/migrate2rocky.sh https://rockylinux.org/migrate2rocky.sh
• sascha_sl 5y ago
  Mostly in who controls it. Rocky Linux has no corporate backing, while Alma is controlled by the CloudLinux people. Rocky also has one of the original CentOS founders on board, it seems in spirit a lot more like CentOS before it got acquired by RedHat/IBM.
  • jaboutboul 5y ago
    This is a fallacy. AlmaLinux is a 501c6 non profit. Not controlled by CloudLinux at all and CloudLinux are diluting whatever stake they have so that the community can have true ownership. AlmaLinux is trying to prevent what happened with CentOS before being taken over.
• iseletsk 5y ago
  comparison: https://wiki.almalinux.org/Comparison.html https://wiki.almalinux.org/Comparison.html