[HN Gopher] AlmaLinux Now Available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sp...
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AlmaLinux Now Available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sponsors
AlmaLinux
Author : jaboutboul
Score : 26 points
Date : 2021-08-17 16:05 UTC (6 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (almalinux.org)
| gitmergerebase wrote:
| Why would Linux distro matter these days?
| cf100clunk wrote:
| Each distro seems to have a different set of value-added
| features, presumably for different target audiences. Check out
| DistroWatch for an overview:
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| https://distrowatch.com/
| gitmergerebase wrote:
| Fair. I meant server side usage. Almost everyone is into
| containers these. And even classical deployments with apache,
| java are look almost the same on centos or debian
| nonameiguess wrote:
| A container runtime engine needs to be deployed onto a
| Linux distro. Which distro may not matter to you personally
| if you only use managed services, but it'll matter an awful
| lot to the managed service provider.
| gitmergerebase wrote:
| I use bare Linux servers. I do not see any differences
| installing docker on ubuntu vs almalinux
| unmole wrote:
| Does anyone know how AlmaLinux compares to Rocky Linux?
| bydo wrote:
| Alma seems more of a corporate thing compared to Rocky being
| community supported. I have both deployed and they both work
| fine. Alma seems faster to update, though this is RHEL, not
| Arch.
|
| Alma also has a shell script that will convert other RHEL based
| distros to it automagically, which is pretty cool.
| iseletsk wrote:
| AlmaLinux is 501c6 non-profit, community based. RockyLinux is
| owned by Greg/his corporation.
| sascha_sl wrote:
| If updates are a priority, you might actually be the right
| audience for CentOS Stream.
| hda111 wrote:
| Does it receive security updates faster than RHEL?
| dralley wrote:
| Security updates, no. RHEL still gets those first due to
| embargoes.
|
| Bugfixes and support for newer hardware, yes.
| sascha_sl wrote:
| Mostly in who controls it. Rocky Linux has no corporate
| backing, while Alma is controlled by the CloudLinux people.
|
| Rocky also has one of the original CentOS founders on board, it
| seems in spirit a lot more like CentOS before it got acquired
| by RedHat/IBM.
| revmagi wrote:
| This is great news. Thank you. AlmaLinux 8 is everything CentOS
| should have been all along. It is nice to see a community around
| Linux come together so complete and provide things we have wanted
| as a community for so many years. Keep up the great work.
| jaboutboul wrote:
| Thank you. We have more great news to come. Glad to answer any
| questions anyone might have.
| sascha_sl wrote:
| Very suspicious number of fresh accounts in here with nothing but
| excitement.
| dralley wrote:
| You're not wrong...
| PoppedKernel wrote:
| Finally, Azure is now worth it for me to try. Great work to the
| AlmaLinux team, you have lived up to all expectations.
| sascha_sl wrote:
| It's important to note that this is not a clear cut endorsement.
| In fact Azure also sponsors Rocky Linux.
|
| https://rockylinux.org/sponsors/
| iseletsk wrote:
| Who has tried AlmaLinux OS so far?
| gkuhne wrote:
| Running CentOS on Azure? Then you should be testing AlmaLinux to
| prepare for the future.
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