AlmaLinux Now Available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sponsors AlmaLinux

Re:AlmaLinux Now Available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sponsor... by bydo on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:02PM (#28214195)

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.

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Re:AlmaLinux Now Available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sponsor... by bclemens on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:58AM (#28217917)

Rocky Linux also has a conversion script available https://rockylinux.org/migrate2rocky.sh

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Re:AlmaLinux Now Available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sponsor... by iseletsk on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @06:23PM (#28215496)

AlmaLinux is 501c6 non-profit, community based. RockyLinux is owned by Greg/his corporation.

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Re:AlmaLinux Now Available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sponsor... by sascha_sl on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:06PM (#28214237)

If updates are a priority, you might actually be the right audience for CentOS Stream.

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Re:AlmaLinux Now Available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sponsor... by hda111 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @05:26PM (#28215061)

Does it receive security updates faster than RHEL?

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Re:AlmaLinux Now Available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sponsor... by dralley on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @05:35PM (#28215147)

Security updates, no. RHEL still gets those first due to embargoes.

Bugfixes and support for newer hardware, yes.

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