[ale] Fwd: CentOS Replacement Project

[Scott McBrien]

There’s always the Red Hat Developer subscription which was recently announced to be updated to 16 self-support subscriptions and can be used for production as well as dev, qa, or test.  So you can get actual free RHEL.

> On Feb 5, 2021, at 8:47 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> Looks like rocky is aiming for a q2 release date.
> 
> Hope something works out. There are plenty of places where streams is fine but several where specific applications are supported only on rhel or Centos that tracks it.
> 
> OK. A few apps are ancient and only work on c6. As much as I want to fdisk those systems, they do mission critical stuff. Apparently the vendor has a new thing that costs a gazillion dollars a year and there's no budget.
> 
>> On February 5, 2021 3:23:46 PM EST, "Stephen R. Blevins via Ale" <ale at ale.org> wrote:
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>> Stephen R. Blevins
>> stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
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>> 
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS Replacement Project
>> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 15:22:41 -0500
>> From: Stephen R. Blevins <stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
>> To: Scott McBrien <smcbrien at gmail.com>
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> According to the https://www.almalinux.org website, Project Lennix was
>> renamed to Alma Linux.
>> 
>> Stephen R. Blevins
>> stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
>> 
>>> On 2/5/21 1:43 PM, Scott McBrien wrote:
>>> This is one of the projects that sprung up.  The other is Rocky Linux, though Alma was the first to get to a beta release.  Like CentOS, Alma Linux is entirely reliant on the funding from a company and as far as I can tell is staffed by employees from that company.
>>> 
>>> -STM
>>> 
>>>>  On Feb 5, 2021, at 1:02 PM, Stephen R. Blevins via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>  FYI, I just learned that the replacement project for CentOS, is
>>>> 
>>>>  https://www.projectlenix.org/
>>>> 
>>>>  First release is still schedule for sometime in 1Q2021, though.
>>>>  -- 
>>>>  Stephen R. Blevins
>>>>  stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
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