Can you elaborate? When I first chose between them back when they first forked, Alma was not as mature as Rocky and Rocky was run by the founder of CENTOS, so I chose that one, but I have no real attachment to either. It would take a lot to switch, but if Alma is better in that way, I’d be happy to migrate as I upgrade.
Sure. Red Hat moved CentOS where it belonged, upstream, in between Fedora and RHEL. That generally upset people who wanted a bug for bug free version of RHEL. Rocky and Alma were both born out of that era. Alma actually works with Red Hat, created its own SIGs and contributes upstream to Fedora. Rocky on the other hand is backed by CIQ. Does not contribute anything upstream, bends/breaks licensing to get source from Red Hat to get as close as they can to that bug for bug code without doing any engineering themselves. Then CIQ poaches Red Hat employees and customers by offering way cheaper support because they don’t pay for any of that pesky engineering.
Honestly at home there really isn’t a reason not to just use CentOS Stream imo. It is ABI compatible with RHEL. There is a misconception that it is a “rolling distro” but it only rolls through minor releases in that it doesn’t even have minor releases. Alma is something in the middle. Actively contributing, ABI compatible, and offers minor versions.
Hell, even Oracle at least adds their own twist to OEL instead of straight up ripping off RHEL.
Can you elaborate? When I first chose between them back when they first forked, Alma was not as mature as Rocky and Rocky was run by the founder of CENTOS, so I chose that one, but I have no real attachment to either. It would take a lot to switch, but if Alma is better in that way, I’d be happy to migrate as I upgrade.
Sure. Red Hat moved CentOS where it belonged, upstream, in between Fedora and RHEL. That generally upset people who wanted a bug for bug free version of RHEL. Rocky and Alma were both born out of that era. Alma actually works with Red Hat, created its own SIGs and contributes upstream to Fedora. Rocky on the other hand is backed by CIQ. Does not contribute anything upstream, bends/breaks licensing to get source from Red Hat to get as close as they can to that bug for bug code without doing any engineering themselves. Then CIQ poaches Red Hat employees and customers by offering way cheaper support because they don’t pay for any of that pesky engineering.
Honestly at home there really isn’t a reason not to just use CentOS Stream imo. It is ABI compatible with RHEL. There is a misconception that it is a “rolling distro” but it only rolls through minor releases in that it doesn’t even have minor releases. Alma is something in the middle. Actively contributing, ABI compatible, and offers minor versions.
Hell, even Oracle at least adds their own twist to OEL instead of straight up ripping off RHEL.