top | item 39286816 (no title) mihalycsaba | 2 years ago What's the difference between Rocky and AlmaLinux? Why would one choose one over the other? discuss order hn newest bayindirh|2 years ago Rocky mirrors RHEL exactly, aiming to be a bug for bug compatible release with RHEL itself.Alma Linux decided to mirror CentOS stream, being an independent RHEL clone, only with ABI compatibility guarantee [0].They are taking slightly different routes as alternatives, Rocky taking a harder approach, if you pardon the pun.[0]: https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/ jaboutboul|2 years ago Wouldn’t rebuilding from the RHEL sources be the easier approach?Also Alma doesn’t mirror Stream, they pull sources from several unencumbered places including stream. load replies (2)
bayindirh|2 years ago Rocky mirrors RHEL exactly, aiming to be a bug for bug compatible release with RHEL itself.Alma Linux decided to mirror CentOS stream, being an independent RHEL clone, only with ABI compatibility guarantee [0].They are taking slightly different routes as alternatives, Rocky taking a harder approach, if you pardon the pun.[0]: https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/ jaboutboul|2 years ago Wouldn’t rebuilding from the RHEL sources be the easier approach?Also Alma doesn’t mirror Stream, they pull sources from several unencumbered places including stream. load replies (2)
jaboutboul|2 years ago Wouldn’t rebuilding from the RHEL sources be the easier approach?Also Alma doesn’t mirror Stream, they pull sources from several unencumbered places including stream. load replies (2)
bayindirh|2 years ago
Alma Linux decided to mirror CentOS stream, being an independent RHEL clone, only with ABI compatibility guarantee [0].
They are taking slightly different routes as alternatives, Rocky taking a harder approach, if you pardon the pun.
[0]: https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/
jaboutboul|2 years ago
Also Alma doesn’t mirror Stream, they pull sources from several unencumbered places including stream.