Choosing a distro is a very personal and opinionated process, similar to choosing a car brand or a text editor.
IMHO, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, or SUSE Liberty Linux are about the same. They are clones of the de facto standard in the commercial industry: RHEL. Oracle Linux is also a clone but deviates more with its "UEK" kernel. Why do I consider RHEL to be the de facto standard? You find the broadest set of commercial (=priprietary) applications for it and the broadest set of services and official training (including certificates), which might help you in your HR decision-making processes. I have worked extensively with Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, and RHEL (and clones). I feel that the number of issues you run into is lower on an RHEL(or clone) distro. Red Hat is a relevant contributor to most of the open source projects they chose to include in their distro; with that, they have the resources to dig deep into issues should they arise since they have a developer familiar with the topic on their payroll. Of course, that helps only if you run RHEL with a support subscription. Ubuntu is a Debian clone. Ubuntu feels a bit like the de facto standard desktop Linux. Often, Ubuntu often tries to do something different to be unique and advertise that difference as superiority, such as using Mir instead of Wayland. Recently, Ubuntu deeply integrated Snaps into the distro. Snaps annoyed me so much that I dropped Ubuntu from my desktops and now use Fedora instead. This is my personal view, and I respect all other views and opinions on Linux distros. Cheers Philipp On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 8:47 AM Muhammad Hanis Irfan Mohd Zaid <hanisirfan.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi team from LINBIT, > > This looks really great that Cloudstack now has an easier way to deploy > especially for those who are just trying to learn it (like me). > > I hope this question doesn't spark any issue but as someone who is new in > the field of system engineering, I would like to know why the choice of > AlmaLinux instead of others e.g. Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, Debian. > > I'm eager to learn how any of you (not just LINBIT), choose their Linux > distro for server uses. Please ignore this if this doesn't really relate to > CloudStack. Thanks 😁 > > On Wed, 27 Nov 2024, 21:51 Philipp Reisner, <philipp.reis...@linbit.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Rohit, > > > > Thanks for the feedback. Right now, the installation wizard is > > proprietary to LINBIT. But we will consider opening it up in the > > following weeks. > > > > best regards, > > Philipp > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 4:37 PM Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > This looks fantastic, looking forward to trying it out next week! Thanks > > for sharing Phillip and the Linbit team for the work. > > > > > > PS. this would be great if we can have the framework to allow community > > customise the ISOs, and allow selection of storage options during > > installation - if it's storage agnostic we could even put this on the > > project downloads page. > > > > > > > > > Regards. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: Wei ZHOU <ustcweiz...@gmail.com> > > > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2024 13:53 > > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org <users@cloudstack.apache.org> > > > Subject: Re: CloudStack HCI Appliance > > > > > > Looks great !! > > > > > > > > > On Friday, November 22, 2024, Philipp Reisner < > > philipp.reis...@linbit.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Dear CloudStack users, > > > > > > > > Yesterday, LINBIT announced the availability of its CloudStack HCI > > > > appliance. It is a freely available ISO image. > > > > > > > > The ISO image contains > > > > * AlmaLinux > > > > * Apache CloudStack > > > > * LINBIT's DRBD, LINSTOR, and some supporting packages > > > > * Plus, an HTML5 installer that will take you through the process > > > > > > > > A newbie can turn three or more machines into a running CloudStack > > > > cluster in just 20 minutes. You get a hyper-converged installation > > > > where your nodes serve as KVM hypervisors and storage nodes > > > > simultaneously. All components (CloudStack manager, LINSTOR > > > > controller, NFS gateway, etc.) are set up in a highly available way. > > > > > > > > You can get it from here: > > > > https://linbit.com/linbit-cloudstack-hci-appliance/ > > > > > > > > cheers, > > > > Phil > > > > > >
