Ahhh so it's mostly just personal opinions, experience and services/applications that a particular distro has when choosing one. Thanks Philipp for the long explanation. Will take this into my notes. Have a great day!
Regards, Hanis Irfan On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, 17:36 Philipp Reisner, <philipp.reis...@linbit.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > >
