I wasn't sure whether this would be better suited here, or in Enterprise/Servers.
How are we all getting on with migrating from CentOS? The two contenders are in a bit of flux at the moment, as the forked projects take wings and start to fly on their own. Assuming you decided to stay within RHEL family in prod, which are you moving to? Alma? Rocky? Oracle(lol)?
Alma was first to release, by quite a margin. CloudLinux's existing build infrastructure and experienced team made for an easy switch to dropping one extra community release on top of the existing commercial distro. They've pledged US$1M per year dev money by way of support/initial sponsorship, and have AWS and CPanel behind them as sponsors, amongst others. The foundation has been set up as a community owned non-profit. Releases are available for AMD64, AARCH64 and (unofficially) RasPi. Secure boot is supported and they have signed shims.
Rocky was rather later to release a prod-ready ISO, mainly due to time taken spinning up build infrastructure. They currently rely on AWS for this AFAIK. The founder was also an early co-founder of CentOS, albeit he passed on the project fairly quickly and it eventually was devoured into the RHEL family directly. Like Alma, they have some big name sponsors (AWS, Google Cloud). The foundation is a *for profit*/public benefit entity with community ownership, which (allegedly) makes it impossible for RHEL to gobble it up this time. They have AMD64 and AARCH64 releases, and a forum member has released an early unofficial Pi image and unofficial AMD64 live ISOs. They don't have signed secure boot shims yet.
For whatever reason, the majority of the community seems to have rallied behind Rocky. They have a much larger (5x) user base in their forum and on Reddit etc. Personally, I had migrated my prod servers to AlmaLinux, as they were (1) available first and (2) secure boot enabled. I also trust that CloudLinux will have the funds, the development team and the infrastructure to see through the next decade or more. I do have VMs with both, and as they're 1:1 RHEL (with some little quirks) I do have a soft spot for Rocky, but it's an ephemeral one - no real reason.
What about you lot? What did you choose, or where are you leaning (personally or professionally)? Do you see the two projects merging at some point? It'd make sense from a development and resources PoV, but I don't think their two legal statuses are compatible.
How are we all getting on with migrating from CentOS? The two contenders are in a bit of flux at the moment, as the forked projects take wings and start to fly on their own. Assuming you decided to stay within RHEL family in prod, which are you moving to? Alma? Rocky? Oracle(lol)?
Alma was first to release, by quite a margin. CloudLinux's existing build infrastructure and experienced team made for an easy switch to dropping one extra community release on top of the existing commercial distro. They've pledged US$1M per year dev money by way of support/initial sponsorship, and have AWS and CPanel behind them as sponsors, amongst others. The foundation has been set up as a community owned non-profit. Releases are available for AMD64, AARCH64 and (unofficially) RasPi. Secure boot is supported and they have signed shims.
Rocky was rather later to release a prod-ready ISO, mainly due to time taken spinning up build infrastructure. They currently rely on AWS for this AFAIK. The founder was also an early co-founder of CentOS, albeit he passed on the project fairly quickly and it eventually was devoured into the RHEL family directly. Like Alma, they have some big name sponsors (AWS, Google Cloud). The foundation is a *for profit*/public benefit entity with community ownership, which (allegedly) makes it impossible for RHEL to gobble it up this time. They have AMD64 and AARCH64 releases, and a forum member has released an early unofficial Pi image and unofficial AMD64 live ISOs. They don't have signed secure boot shims yet.
For whatever reason, the majority of the community seems to have rallied behind Rocky. They have a much larger (5x) user base in their forum and on Reddit etc. Personally, I had migrated my prod servers to AlmaLinux, as they were (1) available first and (2) secure boot enabled. I also trust that CloudLinux will have the funds, the development team and the infrastructure to see through the next decade or more. I do have VMs with both, and as they're 1:1 RHEL (with some little quirks) I do have a soft spot for Rocky, but it's an ephemeral one - no real reason.
What about you lot? What did you choose, or where are you leaning (personally or professionally)? Do you see the two projects merging at some point? It'd make sense from a development and resources PoV, but I don't think their two legal statuses are compatible.
