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AFAIK, Alma has committed to continued full RHEL binary compatibility.
by indigodaddy 3y ago
AFAIK, Alma has committed to continued full RHEL binary compatibility.
- heywoodlh 3y agoIncorrect, according to their FAQ[0] and the original article I linked[1]: > What does ABI/binary compatible with RHEL mean? > In July of 2023, we announced (opens new window) that we were shifting our goal from being a downstream rebuild of RHEL to maintaining ABI compatibility with RHEL. For the AlmaLinux team that means that everything from software applications to kernel modules that work on RHEL will work on AlmaLinux, and if they don't we would consider that a bug. TL;DR: they are using CentOS Stream as their upstream. EDIT: Sorry, you're correct -- I was thinking you meant their original goal of "bug-for-bug" compatibility with RHEL. [0] https://wiki.almalinux.org/FAQ.html#what-does-abi-binary-compatible-with-rhel-mean https://wiki.almalinux.org/FAQ.html#what-does-abi-binary-com... [1] https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/ https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/
- throw0101d 3y ago> For a typical user, this will mean very little change in your use of AlmaLinux. Red Hat-compatible applications will still be able to run on AlmaLinux OS, and your installs of AlmaLinux will continue to receive timely security updates. The most remarkable potential impact of the change is that we will no longer be held to the line of “bug-for-bug compatibility” with Red Hat, and that means that we can now accept bug fixes outside of Red Hat’s release cycle. While that means some AlmaLinux OS users may encounter bugs that are not in Red Hat, we may also accept patches for bugs that have not yet been accepted upstream, or shipped downstream. * https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/ https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/