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What's the purpose exactly? Who uses AlmaLinux exactly?

by mighmi 3y ago

hackerbrother 3y ago
Probably a different group of people, now. The original purpose was "RHEL clone". Now it is "RHEL-like LTS distribution," somewhere mid-stream between CentOS Stream and RHEL.
zincfingers 3y ago
I help run a (small) HPC at a research institute and know a lot of groups in our community who run alma on their nodes. We went with rocky because we flipped a coin
tmottabr 3y ago
Research center in universities, that some times need to use software for research that is only officially supported in RHEL but that does not have money to keep RHEL licenses. One of the original RHEL clones was Scientific Linux that was maintained by those organizations for their use. They dropped because CentOS better at the time and they were doubling effort for something that was already available.
lockhouse 3y ago
Alma Linux was much faster at releasing updates than Rocky. Alma also had secure boot working on their first release, whereas Rocky didn’t. That’s why I favored it. Alma seemed to have more robust infrastructure and processes in place looking from the outside.
- passthejoe 3y ago
  Alma also has a live ISO.
  - bclemens 3y ago
    Rocky Linux has a large selection of live ISOs in different flavor desktop environments / etc at https://rockylinux.org/alternative-images https://rockylinux.org/alternative-images
- bclemens 3y ago
  Alma used CloudLinux's secure boot key (among other CloudLinux infrastructure / resources) for their first few releases. Rocky Linux didn't have secure boot out the gate because we built everything from scratch, which included going through the long process of getting our own secure boot key approved / signed by Microsoft. See https://github.com/rhboot/shim-review/issues/194 https://github.com/rhboot/shim-review/issues/194 (Alma didn't get their own until https://github.com/rhboot/shim-review/issues/235 https://github.com/rhboot/shim-review/issues/235)
LeFantome 3y ago
Wasn’t Alma originally a collaborative effort between several university affiliated scientific labs?
- dralley 3y ago
  You're thinking of Scientific Linux.
rurban 3y ago
cPanel mostly, so 70% of the web hosting industry. So "the Internet"

What's the purpose exactly? Who uses AlmaLinux exactly?

by mighmi 3y ago

What's the purpose exactly? Who uses AlmaLinux exactly?

Probably a different group of people, now. The original purpose was "RHEL clone". Now it is "RHEL-like LTS distribution," somewhere mid-stream between CentOS Stream and RHEL.

zincfingers 3y ago

I help run a (small) HPC at a research institute and know a lot of groups in our community who run alma on their nodes. We went with rocky because we flipped a coin

tmottabr 3y ago

Research center in universities, that some times need to use software for research that is only officially supported in RHEL but that does not have money to keep RHEL licenses. One of the original RHEL clones was Scientific Linux that was maintained by those organizations for their use. They dropped because CentOS better at the time and they were doubling effort for something that was already available.

lockhouse 3y ago

Alma Linux was much faster at releasing updates than Rocky. Alma also had secure boot working on their first release, whereas Rocky didn’t. That’s why I favored it. Alma seemed to have more robust infrastructure and processes in place looking from the outside.

passthejoe 3y ago
Alma also has a live ISO.
- bclemens 3y ago
  Rocky Linux has a large selection of live ISOs in different flavor desktop environments / etc at https://rockylinux.org/alternative-images https://rockylinux.org/alternative-images
bclemens 3y ago
Alma used CloudLinux's secure boot key (among other CloudLinux infrastructure / resources) for their first few releases. Rocky Linux didn't have secure boot out the gate because we built everything from scratch, which included going through the long process of getting our own secure boot key approved / signed by Microsoft. See https://github.com/rhboot/shim-review/issues/194 https://github.com/rhboot/shim-review/issues/194 (Alma didn't get their own until https://github.com/rhboot/shim-review/issues/235 https://github.com/rhboot/shim-review/issues/235)

LeFantome 3y ago

Wasn’t Alma originally a collaborative effort between several university affiliated scientific labs?

dralley 3y ago
You're thinking of Scientific Linux.

rurban 3y ago

cPanel mostly, so 70% of the web hosting industry. So "the Internet"