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> reflecting recent experience What happened? Is this about CentOS's demise?

• cozzyd 4y ago
  Yes. It's too bad because they used to support Scientific Linux, but stopped because CentOS was so popular... Anyway, I'm glad I went with Alma over Rocky, albeit for the wrong reasons (my daughter's name is Alma...)
  • sgc 4y ago
    Sounds like a wholesome reason to me.
  • thiagocsf 4y ago
    You probably know this, but Alma means “soul” in Portuguese. Is this why you picked the name? I like it. I went with Ada myself (after Lovelace - wife only found-out why years later).
    • 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
      FWIW, it also means "apple" in several Turkic languages (Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, and maybe others). Uzbek and Turkish are also pretty close.
    • cozzyd 4y ago
      I was aware of the Spanish meaning which is the same, but the reason we picked it was more mundane. It was one of the few names my wife and I both liked a lot. ALMA is also a radio telescope in Chile (the Atacama Large Millimeter Array), which is somewhat closer afield to what I do.
    • NotYourLawyer 4y ago
      Ha, I also suggested Ada for the same reason. And also didn’t tell my wife why. But we ended up not using it.