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How do I choose between Rocky and Almalinux? Or is it just not a big enough difference to worry about?

bityard 3y ago
Last I looked, there was no real difference. I don't know if there would be any politics preventing it, but I would not be too surprised if they merged at some point.
infinet 3y ago
Almalinux releases faster, and patches faster than Rocky.
bongobingo1 3y ago
They have different organisation structures, where Alma is a 501c Non-profit and Rocky is a backed by a B-Corp, so in my head I read one of those as a community linux ie. Debian-feeling, and the other aims to make money ie: Ubuntu-feeling. That's an extremely crude interpretation though, both need cash to support themselves, so both need to make money some how. Day to day they should be by design, interchangeable. Rocky has a nicer logo... This kind of ugly exchange on reddit[0] always sort of soured my impression of Rocky though, didn't really pass the lebowski test. 0. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/qv6mg2/were_the_almalinux_os_foundation_team_ama/hkvxy62/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/qv6mg2/were_the_alma...
lockhouse 3y ago
Alma has been faster with releasing updates and security patches from what I’ve seen.
- senknvd 3y ago
  This seems to be true. However, looking at https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-2-ga-release https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-2-ga-release: 9.2 Release for PowerPC (ppc64le) architecture held back During testing, we discovered an architecture-specific issue on ppc64le systems with the bundled version of Python 3.9. This issue not only prevents installing, but may break existing installations. This issue is reproducible on CentOS Stream 9 and RHEL 9.2. We have opened a bug report upstream at rhbz#2203919 and are working to fix the issue. Seems like they hold back releases to do additional testing. In this case, they avoided a bug that was present on RHEL (and presumably AlmaLinux).
  - jaboutboul 3y ago
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2203919 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2203919
    - nhanlon 3y ago
      regardless of the status of the bugzilla. That _is_ a bug and a regression in RHEL 9.2.

Last I looked, there was no real difference. I don't know if there would be any politics preventing it, but I would not be too surprised if they merged at some point.

infinet 3y ago

Almalinux releases faster, and patches faster than Rocky.

bongobingo1 3y ago

They have different organisation structures, where Alma is a 501c Non-profit and Rocky is a backed by a B-Corp, so in my head I read one of those as a community linux ie. Debian-feeling, and the other aims to make money ie: Ubuntu-feeling. That's an extremely crude interpretation though, both need cash to support themselves, so both need to make money some how. Day to day they should be by design, interchangeable. Rocky has a nicer logo... This kind of ugly exchange on reddit[0] always sort of soured my impression of Rocky though, didn't really pass the lebowski test. 0. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/qv6mg2/were_the_almalinux_os_foundation_team_ama/hkvxy62/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/qv6mg2/were_the_alma...

lockhouse 3y ago

Alma has been faster with releasing updates and security patches from what I’ve seen.

senknvd 3y ago
This seems to be true. However, looking at https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-2-ga-release https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-2-ga-release: 9.2 Release for PowerPC (ppc64le) architecture held back During testing, we discovered an architecture-specific issue on ppc64le systems with the bundled version of Python 3.9. This issue not only prevents installing, but may break existing installations. This issue is reproducible on CentOS Stream 9 and RHEL 9.2. We have opened a bug report upstream at rhbz#2203919 and are working to fix the issue. Seems like they hold back releases to do additional testing. In this case, they avoided a bug that was present on RHEL (and presumably AlmaLinux).
- jaboutboul 3y ago
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2203919 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2203919
  - nhanlon 3y ago
    regardless of the status of the bugzilla. That _is_ a bug and a regression in RHEL 9.2.