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mihalycsaba | 2 years ago

What's the difference between Rocky and AlmaLinux? Why would one choose one over the other?

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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.