AlmaLinux Reviews and details

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• June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux

  Another suitable option, which has handled the situation of Red Hat source RPM releases[1] quite a bit better imo, is Alma Linux. https://almalinux.org/ Similar goal, but is working more directly upstream with Red Hat[2] as opposed to the (as I last had read) undisclosed and non-open approach that Rocky Linux has taken. 1: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream 2:... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Keeping Open Source Open: Rocky Linux

  Https://almalinux.org (At the bottom, "Backed By"). Source: 10 months ago

• what is the typical size of Linux updates?

  This might be a good use case for RHEL family distribution (such as CentOS Stream or AlmaLinux) or Debian. These are much longer lived distributions, and provide fewer update churn over time than other distributions. Source: 11 months ago

• Can't get Nagios to work on Ubuntu 22.04

  If If you feel more comfortable on a RHEL based distro, there a good alternatives to CentOS such as AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux. Source: 11 months ago

• Rust language forked by community into Crab

  This situation still exists and Gregory Kurtzer's RockyLinux (Greg started CentOS originally), CloudLinux's AlmaLinux, and others exist to fill the need for a freely installable RHEL clone. Source: 11 months ago

• It's in a bit of an odd location but Alma Linux does provide images with different desktop environments

  If you go to https://almalinux.org and click download, then click "Get Live Media Image", you'll be sent to a page with that link as well. Source: 11 months ago

• Rocky Linux 8.8 Available Now

  Look at AlmaLinux also. I'm not sure of any technical reason why you'd chose one over the other, but AlmaLinux is a public non-profit with a board, Rocky ownership is a private org. https://almalinux.org/ I moved everything to UbuntuLTS also, and I'm not moving again. But if I had waited, and I sort of wish I had, I'd probably be moving to Alma. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• what host OS to use for Docker and does it even matter?

  I was raised on Debian and I've been using it for all my Linux servers. On my ESXi I use VMware Photon OS as the host OS for my Docker. My primary client is using Alma Linux as the host OS for their Docker deployments. Source: about 1 year ago

• Light weight Distro for Docker with Portainer

  AlmaLinux would be a great distro for your use case. Source: over 1 year ago

• Good distro for a beginner who wants to learn without struggling too much?

  I would say either Debian or a RHEL free derivative like Rocky Linux or Alma Linux. If you want to get your foot on IT, Linux IT, then those should be what you have to aim to. If the company you'll be working on has money, it'll use RHEL, if not a free derivative or Debian for stability. Source: over 1 year ago

• Why should I choose fedora over Ubuntu, arch or manjaro?

  CentOS used to be the go-to free version of that, but Red Hat acquired that and moved it slighly upstream of RHEL. Rocky Linux and Alma Linux are now becoming the popular "free" versions. Source: over 1 year ago

• If you could not distro hop and were stuck using 1 distro forever, what would it be?

  Never heard about AlmaLinux before. Just adding the link: https://almalinux.org/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Question on dnf-automatic: Will 'security' update security/bugs on applications like Firefox, or only the OS?

  There are entire other OSes for what you're looking for, like RHEL, Rocky Linux, Alma Linux. Source: over 1 year ago

• Any free open source alternatives to CageFS

  Nope, we have a wide variety of sponsors. https://almalinux.org scroll down to "Backed by". Source: over 1 year ago

• How would I get AMD GPU rendering in blender to work?

  I think developers can, you can sign up for a developer account with Red Hat for free. But don't bother, just use Rocky Linux or Alma Linux, they are fully compatible, almost identical to RHEL. Source: almost 2 years ago

• The History of AlmaLinux Distribution

  AlmaLinux is a stable, robust, and community-driven Linux distribution that was originally created by CloudLinux as a successor to CentOS which turned End-Of-Life at the end of December 2021. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How do you guys feel about Redhat and CentOS?

  Most people looking to replace the deprecated CentOS Linux, have switched to AlmaLinux. Source: almost 2 years ago

• how Red Hat Enterprise Linux works?

  A totally free alternative is Alma linux , https://almalinux.org/ , you can use it do pretty much anything red hat does and learn your way around. And you get updates without having to have a subscription. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Elastix replacement or upgrade

  Redhat base - Cent OS (EOL can be extended using Tux Care); Alma Linux & Rocky Linux are spin offs and are fully supported redhat based distros. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What situations would fedora server be better than RHEL based distros?

  Redhat FTW or https://almalinux.org both use dnf though. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What Distro did you use to replace Centos?

  Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux are drop-in pre-streams CentOS replacements. Bonus points for Rocky as it was created by the original creator of CentOS to continue its original purpose. Source: almost 2 years ago