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what's everybody's thoughts on Alma and Rocky Linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tbh I do not know the ins and outs of rhel based distros, so these have caught my interest. I've tries live usb of both and I really did like the feel of alma. Rocky I thought felt like every other GNOME system.... But I clearly dont really know much about these sort of distros and their capabilities. Are these considered enterprise grade? I have no clue. Would love to hear your thoughts on alma and Rocky and what makes them different that other distros. Thanks

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[–] LeFantome 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Up until very recently, both Alma and Rocky were meant to be bug-for-bug duplicates of RHEL. Other than branding, there should be no difference at all between the three.

So, as far as the software is concerned, they are enterprise grade. Support is may be another matter.

Recently, Red Hat made it more difficult to create exact copies of RHEL. Without getting into it, Rocky has figured out how to continue while Alma has decided to be ABI compatible but give up on being an exact big-for-bug copy.

I do not think either Alma or Rocky has had a release since the change so they should still be identical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this info; kinda seems bizarre to me lol