AlmaLinux 9.3 Stable(almalinux.org) |
AlmaLinux 9.3 Stable(almalinux.org) |
That said I hope we're in for at least half a decade of stability and peace amongst the RHELoids
I vastly prefer Fedora to testing@Debian or God forbid Ubuntu and would like to use the same environment in a server distro too
Probably best to either pay for RHEL or move to a different distro. They've proven multiple times now that they don't care for free derivatives, and they're willing to squeeze blood from stone to get subscriptions.
On the plus side, other distro support among COTS has never been better. Kubernetes or Docker is the new target, not RHEL.
While Alma and Rocky promise the moon of 10 years of support and unreproachable governance, they are slow and inconsistent about releasing security fixes while CentOS 9 Stream releases them fast. Neither has the professionalism, track record, or deep benches of engineering teams to sustain themselves in the long term. I suspect neither Alma nor Rocky will survive 10 years.