Tag: Operating System

What is AlmaLinux?

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Alison Gray | Updated: February 10, 2022

Category: Other | Tags: AlmaLinux, CentOS, CentOS Replacement, CentOS Stream, Operating System

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What is AlmaLinux? It is an open source 1:1 binary compatible fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The AlmaLinux foundation was founded by CloudLinux, which invested $1 million. They wanted to provide a long-term stable operating system (OS) version. AlmaLinux was first released in March of 2021 and has recently released another stable version, AlmaLinux 8.5.

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CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream

Posted on December 28, 2020 by David Singer | Updated: August 16, 2023

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Alternative, Alternatives, CentOS, CentOS 6, CentOS 7, CentOS 8, CentOS Stream, Configuration, High Availability, Operating System, OS, Service, Systemctl, Systemd

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With the recent announcement by CentOS 8 regarding the switch from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream, this commonly used Linux distribution is being relegated to a mid-stage development version of RHEL. In essence, CentOS 8 becomes an early rolling-release distro for RHEL. As CentOS moves from being a follow-up distribution to the stable version of RedHat, to be, in effect, a prerelease version of RHEL, many users are looking for alternatives to replace their current operating systems with a long-term stable platform apart from RHEL and IBM who owns RedHat.

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