Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-07 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Thanks Rich for the kind words and Johnny for the support as well. Rich is correct about the non-profit foundation that was setup to facilitate community ownership and involvement. No one party owns or controls AlmaLinux. We don’t view anyone as "the other team” either, and we are glad, and

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-07 Thread Tom Bishop
On Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 9:11 AM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 4/5/21 1:42 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > > On 4/5/21 12:55 PM, Ruslanas Gžibovskis wrote: > >> Also maintained by business unit, which might impact later changes > >> when you > >> tight your prod to it. > > > > A major part of the

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 4/5/21 1:42 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > On 4/5/21 12:55 PM, Ruslanas Gžibovskis wrote: >> Also maintained by business unit, which might impact later changes >> when you >> tight your prod to it. > > A major part of the announcement videocast was about the formation of > the 501c6 non-profit

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-06 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 4/6/21 3:29 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: On 4/6/21 9:24 AM, mark wrote: On 4/5/21 3:24 PM, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: I installed the beta when it came out on a VM running under C7.  I upgrade every day or two and Alma upgrades have so far been seamless. It's transited from beta to RC

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-06 Thread Peter Eckel via CentOS
> Looking. Rocky was supposed to release something at the beginning of the > month, but I haven't seen anything. The release was postponed by one month. "Unfortunately we’ve had to revise our previous update for a release candidate from March 31 to April 30, due to complications in the build

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-06 Thread Frank Ramaekers
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-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of mark Sent: Monday, April 5, 2021 11:21 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-06 Thread Rich Bowen
On 4/6/21 9:24 AM, mark wrote: On 4/5/21 3:24 PM, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: I installed the beta when it came out on a VM running under C7.  I upgrade every day or two and Alma upgrades have so far been seamless. It's transited from beta to RC and now to stable. I installed the RC

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-06 Thread mark
On 4/5/21 3:24 PM, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: I installed the beta when it came out on a VM running under C7.  I upgrade every day or two and Alma upgrades have so far been seamless. It's transited from beta to RC and now to stable. I installed the RC on a USB stick to allow me to run

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread Fred
There used to be several RHEL clones too, but many (some??) have dropped by the wayside. I started with TaoLinux, a rebuild of EL6, by basically one guy at a university, because he wanted his own RHEL clone to run at work. when he changed jobs he worked with Johnny to come up with a transition for

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
I installed the beta when it came out on a VM running under C7. I upgrade every day or two and Alma upgrades have so far been seamless. It's transited from beta to RC and now to stable. I installed the RC on a USB stick to allow me to run as bare metal on a laptop (which unfortunately has to

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 05/04/2021 à 18:20, mark a écrit : > 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'église - 30730 Montpezat Site :

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread Rich Bowen
On 4/5/21 12:55 PM, Ruslanas Gžibovskis wrote: Also maintained by business unit, which might impact later changes when you tight your prod to it. A major part of the announcement videocast was about the formation of the 501c6 non-profit foundation that will back the distro. While it does

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread Peter Eckel via CentOS
Hi Simon, +1 I expect that to happen sooner or later. Currently Alma has a head start with Rocky postponed until the end of April, but to me the race is still open. As is the case with many other colleagues, I'm currently stuck with RHEL clones because RHEL/CentOS is what my customers are

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread Simon Matter
> 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 I 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.

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread mailist
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.

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 4/5/21 11:58 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread Lamar Owen
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

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread Ruslanas Gžibovskis
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

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread Peter Eckel via CentOS
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

[CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread 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. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos