Anyone looked into almalinux? I was sort of waiting for rocky, but I see from over the weekend on slashdot that almalinux stable is released. mark
Hi Mark,> Anyone looked into almalinux? I was sort of waiting for rocky, but I see from over the weekend on slashdot that almalinux stable is released.yup. So far I upgraded a couple of test machines using the conversion tool they provided on GitHub (works fine, although it seems each and every package will be re-downloaded during the migration process which makes it a bit tedious), and I used my own KVM/virt-install/Kickstart/Ansible-Workflow to bring up one new server from scractch with no further change than swapping the ISO image for CentOS against the one for Alma 8.3. Both procedures worked absolutely flawless, and so far I still have to find the first issue with any of the machines converted to or initially set up with AlmaLinux. Caveat: 1. All of the machines I tried are VMs, no bare metal servers or VM hosts. 2. All of the machines are headless with no GUI installed at all. 3. No UEFI or Secure Boot (the latter is an open issue with Alma AFAIK). On the other hand I did not need to change a single bit of Ansible code or Kickstart template in order to make it work, so the compatibility to CentOS seems to be very good. Regards, Peter.
wasn't it present under cloudlinux name with modifications compared to the original RHEL/CentOS? Also maintained by business unit, which might impact later changes when you tight your prod to it. in that case looks like Rgular CentOS8-stream would seem better idea with local package copy/snapshot.... On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 19:21, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:> Anyone looked into almalinux? I was sort of waiting for rocky, but I see > from over the weekend on slashdot that almalinux stable is released. > > mark > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Ruslanas G?ibovskis +370 6030 7030
On 4/5/21 12:20 PM, mark wrote:> Anyone looked into almalinux? I was sort of waiting for rocky, but I > see from over the weekend on slashdot that almalinux stable is released.I've cross-graded two C8 VMs over to AL8 and thus far smooth operation.? I have NOT done any fresh installs (don't plan to, either, since new installs are all Debian now).? Do note the release notes specifically mention that Secure Boot is not supported yet, so be aware of that if you use SecureBoot.
On 2021-04-05 12:20, mark wrote:> Anyone looked into almalinux? I was sort of waiting for rocky, but I > see from over the weekend on slashdot that almalinux stable is > released.We are moving it into production as we speak! Todd Merriman Software Toolz, Inc.
> Anyone looked into almalinux? I was sort of waiting for rocky, but I see > from over the weekend on slashdot that almalinux stable is released. > > markI hoped they would join forces and produce only one RHEL clone but put some effort into bringing EPEL to a usable state for EL8 instead. IMHO that would help *MUCH* more than to have two almost identical rebuilds of RHEL. Simon
Le 05/04/2021 ? 18:20, mark a ?crit?:> I was sort of waiting for rocky, but I see from over the weekend on slashdot > that almalinux stable is released.Linux. Reinventing the wheel since 1991. :o) -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info at microlinux.fr T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32 Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12
Looking. Rocky was supposed to release something at the beginning of the month, but I haven't seen anything. -Frank -----Original Message----- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of mark Sent: Monday, April 5, 2021 11:21 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] almalinux? Anyone looked into almalinux? I was sort of waiting for rocky, but I see from over the weekend on slashdot that almalinux stable is released. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos