FORKING RHEL

Besides Rocky Linux there’s another RHEL-downstream on the scene, which like Rocky was announced pretty much as soon as classic CentOS got the axe. That Linux is Alma Linux. Alma’s initial release was prepared by CloudLinux, but now it’s entirely in the hands of the community, in the spirit of the original CentOS. CloudLinux already has its own commerical CloudLinux OS offering, aimed at hosting providers. It’s based on RHEL which perhaps gave them a bit of a head start preparing the first Alma release, but time will tell if it can build the community required to sustain it.