This new Linux distro wants to ‘fill the void’ left by CentOS
The AlmaLinux project will now be steered by a non-profit organization
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The first stable release of AlmaLinux, the drop-inCentOSreplacement, has arrived on schedule. AlmaLinux is an open source rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that aims to fill the void left by Red Hat’s move todivert its resourcesto the CentOS Stream distro.
Proposed by server OS vendor CloudLinux, AlmaLinux backs the newLinux distrowith a financial commitment of amillion dollars a year, and promises to develop and foster anopen sourcecommunity around the project.
“So, after about 4 months since the decision to steer CentOS in a different path, you now have a 1:1 binary compatible drop-in replacement, with a very long support timeframe,” write the AlmaLinux developers in the release announcement.
Proper open source
In addition to the release, the project also announced the formation of a non-profit organization, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, which will now take over the responsibility of managing the distro going forward via its governing board.
Former Red Hat and Fedora developer, Jack Aboutboul, will be AlmaLinux’s community manager.
He will be joined on the board by veteran open source advocate Simon Phipps, along with Igor Seletskiy, CloudLinux’s CEO, Eugene Zamriy, CloudLinux’s director of release engineering, and Jesse Asklund, global head of customer experience for WebPros atweb hostingcontrol panel, cPanel.
There’s also room for two other members from the AlmaLinux community who’ll be elected in due time.
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In addition to the installation ISOs, the project has also shared a conversion script that will help CentOS users convert their existing installation to AlmaLinux.
Via:ZDNet
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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