AlmaLinux Now Available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sponsors AlmaLinux

https://almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-now-available-on-microsoft-azure-azure-sponsors-almalinux/

by jaboutboul • 5 years ago

42 26 5 years ago

iseletsk3• 5 years ago

Who has tried AlmaLinux OS so far?

revmagi• 5 years ago

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.

jaboutboul2• 5 years ago

Thank you. We have more great news to come. Glad to answer any questions anyone might have.

PoppedKernel• 5 years ago

Finally, Azure is now worth it for me to try. Great work to the AlmaLinux team, you have lived up to all expectations.

gkuhne• 5 years ago

Running CentOS on Azure? Then you should be testing AlmaLinux to prepare for the future.

gitmergerebase3• 5 years ago

Why would Linux distro matter these days?

cf100clunk• 5 years ago

Each distro seems to have a different set of value-added features, presumably for different target audiences. Check out DistroWatch for an overview:

https://distrowatch.com/

gitmergerebase3• 5 years ago

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

unmole• 5 years ago

Does anyone know how AlmaLinux compares to Rocky Linux?

bydo• 5 years ago

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.

sascha_sl4• 5 years ago

If updates are a priority, you might actually be the right audience for CentOS Stream.

iseletsk3• 5 years ago

AlmaLinux is 501c6 non-profit, community based. RockyLinux is owned by Greg/his corporation.

bclemens• 5 years ago

Rocky Linux also has a conversion script available https://rockylinux.org/migrate2rocky.sh

sascha_sl4• 5 years ago

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.

jaboutboul2• 5 years ago

This is a fallacy. AlmaLinux is a 501c6 non profit. Not controlled by CloudLinux at all and CloudLinux are diluting whatever stake they have so that the community can have true ownership. AlmaLinux is trying to prevent what happened with CentOS before being taken over.

iseletsk3• 5 years ago

comparison: https://wiki.almalinux.org/Comparison.html

sascha_sl4• 5 years ago

Very suspicious number of fresh accounts in here with nothing but excitement.

dralley2• 5 years ago

You're not wrong...

sascha_sl4• 5 years ago

It's important to note that this is not a clear cut endorsement. In fact Azure also sponsors Rocky Linux.

https://rockylinux.org/sponsors/

kisanetik• 5 years ago

Nice!

antonio-volkoff• 5 years ago

Cool!

AlmaLinux Now Available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sponsors AlmaLinux

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