Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

[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 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 remain as Win10).  It ran fine 
until the upgrade to stable, but then corrupted the image during the 
upgrade. I reinstalled and it seems to be running fine.


No one has said it, but everyone that's tried it - what's it at? I'm 
on CentOS 7. Do I have to go to 8 for Alma? Is there a 7? Is the 
conversion script someone mentioned for same release, or upgrade, or...?


They will not be doing a 7. Just 8.

That said ... it's probably a great idea to take this conversation over 
to *their* mailing lists. There's an extent to which this conversation 
is relevant to this list - after all, we're all part of the same 
extended family now - but once it starts becoming a technical discussion 
of Alma itself, it's veering off-topic, and you'll get better answers 
over there.


--Rich (With community manager hat on, trying to avoid this thread 
getting out of hand. No, it's not yet. Just trying to avoid it.)


+1

mark, CentOS 7 will be fully supported till EOL, so why waste time on AL7?

I would not convert CL7 to any 8 but if that is only reason you are 
asking about AL7 then your best bet is to convert CL7 to last CL8 (not 
CS8) and then convert CL8 to AL8.


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(Love is in the Air)
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Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

[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 efforts. We 
continue to make steady progress, and are optimistic about our revised 
timeline."





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Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

[Frank Ramaekers]

Looking.  Rocky was supposed to release something at the beginning of the
month, but I haven't seen anything.

-Frank

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From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of mark
Sent: Monday, April 5, 2021 11:21 AM
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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
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Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

[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 on a USB stick to allow me to run as bare metal on 
a laptop (which unfortunately has to remain as Win10).  It ran fine 
until the upgrade to stable, but then corrupted the image during the 
upgrade. I reinstalled and it seems to be running fine.


No one has said it, but everyone that's tried it - what's it at? I'm on 
CentOS 7. Do I have to go to 8 for Alma? Is there a 7? Is the conversion 
script someone mentioned for same release, or upgrade, or...?


They will not be doing a 7. Just 8.

That said ... it's probably a great idea to take this conversation over 
to *their* mailing lists. There's an extent to which this conversation 
is relevant to this list - after all, we're all part of the same 
extended family now - but once it starts becoming a technical discussion 
of Alma itself, it's veering off-topic, and you'll get better answers 
over there.


--Rich (With community manager hat on, trying to avoid this thread 
getting out of hand. No, it's not yet. Just trying to avoid it.)




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Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

[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 as bare metal on a 
laptop (which unfortunately has to remain as Win10).  It ran fine until 
the upgrade to stable, but then corrupted the image during the upgrade. 
I reinstalled and it seems to be running fine.


No one has said it, but everyone that's tried it - what's it at? I'm on 
CentOS 7. Do I have to go to 8 for Alma? Is there a 7? Is the conversion 
script someone mentioned for same release, or upgrade, or...?


mark



I've been trialing Springdale as well (as a VM).

Requirements are:
 OwnCloud
 DokuWiki
 Zotero
 DNS slave, eventual master
 DHCP server
 NFS server
 Thunderbird
 Firefox
 KeePass
 OpenOffice
 FreeCAD
 Octave
 Lilypond and Frescobaldi
 Compilers: GNU and others.
I'll probably think of a few users as I work through them!


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