Rocky Linux 8.4 - how is this different to Alma Linux?

Posted Jun 22, 2021 17:54 UTC (Tue) by jccleaver (guest, #127418)
In reply to: Rocky Linux 8.4 - how is this different to Alma Linux? by amacater
Parent article: Rocky Linux 8.4

One is none; two is one.

Given what just happened with CentOS, I consider this to be an important duplication of effort, and having two different teams doing things independently reduces the chances of the entire downstream EL community being affected again. Both deserve our support and utilization.

Rocky Linux 8.4 - how is this different to Alma Linux?

Posted Jun 23, 2021 8:26 UTC (Wed) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link] (1 responses)

There were multiple Redhat re-packaging distros before. Remember Scientific Linux?

Rocky Linux 8.4 - how is this different to Alma Linux?

Posted Jun 23, 2021 18:23 UTC (Wed) by jccleaver (guest, #127418) [Link]

> There were multiple Redhat re-packaging distros before. Remember Scientific Linux?

There were. And before that, White Box Enterprise Linux, and probably others I forget. However all of those eventually went by the wayside, not to be restarted, once Red Hat officially blessed and incorporated CentOS Linux as the One True Rebuild. By encourage-allowing other rebuild products to go fallow, everyone put their faith in Red Hat not screwing downstream users over.

Never again. Keep backup projects running so that rebuild forking is easy and knowledge is distributed.