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That sounds personal. Why is Alma better than Rocky? I'm just curious and would never switch from my ride or die Debian.
At a quick glance, they just both seem to be spiritual successors to CentOS
Alma works diligently to go through each srpm and ensure references to rhel are replaced with alma before building binaries. Rocky just rebrands rhel and rebuilds. Completely different!
Just kidding. I have no idea what kind of work is required to run a project like Rocky or Alma Linux and I appreciate the work both of them do. I just like to be stupid funny.
I just know it's important for someone (multiple someones now) to clone the enterprise system so that anyone who wants it can have it.
CentOS Stream is still that. There is a lot of FUD about it, but it is still ABI compatible with RHEL, it's still an unsupported community project like CentOS was, it is not a rolling release that people seem to think it is... It doesn't have a concept of minor versions, but it won't roll through major versions. RHEL will behave the exact same way if you don't set a release version.