Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 released [LWN.net]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 released

Posted May 12, 2022 0:23 UTC (Thu) by bmur (guest, #52954)
Parent article: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 released

Has a consensus RHEL clone been picked now that centos is no longer occupying that role?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 released

Posted May 12, 2022 1:05 UTC (Thu) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link] (5 responses)

I prefer Alma myself. They have a WSL release, they came out with a 9-beta and an 8.6-beta... and we'll see how long before 8.6 and 9 come out from Alma compared to Rocky.

That isn't say that I have any ill-will toward Rocky. I'm sure it is a fine community and distro. The fact that I just saw a story saying they just got a sponsor giving them $26 million means that in the not-too-distant-future, they may start catching up to Alma.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 released

Posted May 12, 2022 1:16 UTC (Thu) by tau (subscriber, #79651) [Link] (4 responses)

Well, we saw what happened when there was only one free RHEL repack in town. Maybe it is worthwhile for two repacks to continue to exist, as long as both are credibly able to independently of each other.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 released

Posted May 12, 2022 2:40 UTC (Thu) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link] (1 responses)

There are more than two. There is also Oracle and EuroLinux... and a couple of others. I saw that EuroLinux 8.6 was released today. Checking the AlmaLinux mirrors, 8.6 is syncing but they haven't announced it yet. I expect first thing tomorrow.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 released

Posted May 12, 2022 19:11 UTC (Thu) by bgpepi (guest, #77064) [Link]

Thay are release...
https://almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-86-stable-is-now-ava...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 released

Posted May 12, 2022 6:07 UTC (Thu) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link] (1 responses)

CentOS wasn’t the only: there was always at least the Scientific Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 released

Posted May 14, 2022 1:14 UTC (Sat) by cozzyd (guest, #110972) [Link]

There was no Scientific Linux 8.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 released

Posted May 12, 2022 18:03 UTC (Thu) by cozzyd (guest, #110972) [Link]

I use AlmaLinux, but that's partially because my daughter's name is Alma.

RHEL clones

Posted May 12, 2022 22:42 UTC (Thu) by xose (subscriber, #535) [Link]

Mainly it's a competition between Alma and Rocky. But there are more of them:
Notable Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives