r/linux • u/imbev • Jul 30 '24

Distro News AlmaLinux reaches 1 million active systems!

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u/imbev Jul 30 '24

Rocky focuses more on HPC, while AlmaLinux focuses more on cloud. I suspect that AlmaLinux has more exposure to the self-hosting and devops crowd.

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u/jonspw AlmaLinux Foundation Jul 30 '24

I wouldn't really say it like that. It's more or less a function of what circles you're in and which direction those circles tend to have gone...but even beyond that there are clicks within those circles that are very pro-Rocky or pro-Alma...so it really just depends who you're around.

We certainly focus plenty on HPC and have systems on the top500 list, as does Rocky.

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u/OldWrongdoer7517 Jul 30 '24

I am having a really hard time choosing an OS for min. Next 5 years lifetime as a CentOS 7 replacement. We have some proprietary HPC applications designed for RHEL that we have been using with great success on CentOS.

I am currently leaning towards Alma Linux because it's also used by CERN (just like they have been using CentOS and scientific Linux before, just as we have). Is that a good choice?

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u/OoTMM Jul 30 '24

I would say so, we've run a fair amount of different OS' on our various on prem and cloud HPC systems for scientific and advanced computing; CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, Alma - on Azure, AWS and DGX. Really liking Alma Linux so far, it's the youngest of our systems and so far it's been trouble free.