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I for one would be okay with a distro like AlmaLinux migrating away from being an exact RHEL downstream clone to being an independent stable RPM based distribut
by sumanthvepa 3y ago
I for one would be okay with a distro like AlmaLinux migrating away from being an exact RHEL downstream clone to being an independent stable RPM based distribution. Stability and RPM ecosystem compatibility is what people are really looking for when they use a distribution like RHEL. So any reasonable distribution that provides those two will be sufficient to migrate away from Fedora/Redhat entirely.
- kjs3 3y agoI wouldn't, and neither would a lot of other shops I'm familiar with. Being able to run binary compatible distro in dev/test/QA and pretty seamlessly migrate to supported RHEL in prod is an important cost and risk containment measure. Now it's either 1) deal with 'is this bug our issue or because of something in the close-but-not-exact distro', 2) Dump our current supported distro for another; RH support has been in my experience very, very good, and no I don't think Rocky or the rest will come close any time soon, or 3) take a pretty big financial hit licensing RHEL everywhere. May be time to look at SuSE again.