AlmaLinux Releases 9.3 Beta

repelsteeltje wrote: post #3

bennyvasquez wrote: post #2

Built entirely without RHEL sRPMs

What happened to the bug-for-bug compatibly promise? Or was that just Rocky Linux?

https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/

Re: AlmaLinux Releases 9.3 Beta

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:08 PM UTC

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Re: AlmaLinux Releases 9.3 Beta

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Post by asamir79 » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:08 PM UTC

was waiting on fire

Re: AlmaLinux Releases 9.3 Beta

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Post by nextsub » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:14 PM UTC

Awesome, let's test!! <3

Re: AlmaLinux Releases 9.3 Beta

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Post by repelsteeltje » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:26 PM UTC

bennyvasquez wrote: post #4

repelsteeltje wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happened to the bug-for-bug compatibly promise? Or was that just Rocky Linux?

https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/

Ah yes, thanks! This:

> The most remarkable potential impact of the change is that we will no longer be held to the line of “bug-for-bug compatibility” with Red Hat, and that means that we can now accept bug fixes outside of Red Hat’s release cycle.

So you might say CentOS was a clone or RHEL (and Rocky, Oracle are trying to continue that), while ALMA is a fork (like SUSE, but much closer to RHEL).

Re: AlmaLinux Releases 9.3 Beta

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Post by gakuhne » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:36 PM UTC

The community is working hard to bring this to .....the community!

Re: AlmaLinux Releases 9.3 Beta

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Post by damako3 » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:45 PM UTC

up