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iseletsk
Who has tried AlmaLinux OS so far?
revmagi
This is great news. Thank you. AlmaLinux 8 is everything CentOS should have been all along. It is nice to see a community around Linux come together so complete and provide things we have wanted as a community for so many years. Keep up the great work.
jaboutboul
Thank you. We have more great news to come. Glad to answer any questions anyone might have.
PoppedKernel
Finally, Azure is now worth it for me to try. Great work to the AlmaLinux team, you have lived up to all expectations.
gkuhne
Running CentOS on Azure? Then you should be testing AlmaLinux to prepare for the future.
gitmergerebase
Why would Linux distro matter these days?
cf100clunk
Each distro seems to have a different set of value-added features, presumably for different target audiences. Check out DistroWatch for an overview:

https://distrowatch.com/

gitmergerebase
Fair. I meant server side usage. Almost everyone is into containers these. And even classical deployments with apache, java are look almost the same on centos or debian
nonameiguess
A container runtime engine needs to be deployed onto a Linux distro. Which distro may not matter to you personally if you only use managed services, but it'll matter an awful lot to the managed service provider.
gitmergerebase
I use bare Linux servers. I do not see any differences installing docker on ubuntu vs almalinux
Spivak
You do have to remember that all your containers are running with your host kernel, with your hosts isolation stack (SELinux vs AppArmor), your hosts firewall stack (ufw/firewalld/iptables/nftables) and the container engine ends up integrating with the host in lots of odd ways.
unmole
Does anyone know how AlmaLinux compares to Rocky Linux?
bydo
Alma seems more of a corporate thing compared to Rocky being community supported. I have both deployed and they both work fine. Alma seems faster to update, though this is RHEL, not Arch.

Alma also has a shell script that will convert other RHEL based distros to it automagically, which is pretty cool.

sascha_sl
If updates are a priority, you might actually be the right audience for CentOS Stream.
hda111
Does it receive security updates faster than RHEL?
dralley
Security updates, no. RHEL still gets those first due to embargoes.

Bugfixes and support for newer hardware, yes.

iseletsk
AlmaLinux is 501c6 non-profit, community based. RockyLinux is owned by Greg/his corporation.
sascha_sl
Mostly in who controls it. Rocky Linux has no corporate backing, while Alma is controlled by the CloudLinux people.

Rocky also has one of the original CentOS founders on board, it seems in spirit a lot more like CentOS before it got acquired by RedHat/IBM.

jaboutboul
This is a fallacy. AlmaLinux is a 501c6 non profit. Not controlled by CloudLinux at all and CloudLinux are diluting whatever stake they have so that the community can have true ownership. AlmaLinux is trying to prevent what happened with CentOS before being taken over.
sascha_sl
Very suspicious number of fresh accounts in here with nothing but excitement.
[dead] picklesurprise
Alma astroturfs everything and tries to spread FUD about other distros (particularly Rocky). jaboutboul and iseletsk are both CloudLinux / Alma people. Nobody takes Alma seriously anyway, in the DoD folks are calling it "Donbas Linux" because CloudLinux / Alma is out of Ukraine.