Comment on CERN Renounces RHEL in Favor of DebianparentComments−burnt-resistor1dWell, those are functional clones of RHEL/CentOS and unsuitable for CERN as mentioned in the article.−KAMSPioneer1dBest I can tell the article only decries the deprecation of x86-64-v2 in RHEL, and says that for that reason Alma is not a viable solution...Buuuut here is the fix: http://mirror.grid.uchicago.edu/pub/linux/alma/10.2/isos/x86... There's you Alma installer with support for the processors they use, and you can even install EPEL packages built for x86-64-v2 on Alma as well!So...I agree with the user above, what stops what I must imagine would be a simpler switch from RHEL to Alma instead of Debian?−indigodaddy19hSure, but you never know when they might drop stuff like this. With Debian you know it's in the main iso/core/whatever
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Well, those are functional clones of RHEL/CentOS and unsuitable for CERN as mentioned in the article.
Best I can tell the article only decries the deprecation of x86-64-v2 in RHEL, and says that for that reason Alma is not a viable solution...
Buuuut here is the fix: http://mirror.grid.uchicago.edu/pub/linux/alma/10.2/isos/x86... There's you Alma installer with support for the processors they use, and you can even install EPEL packages built for x86-64-v2 on Alma as well!
So...I agree with the user above, what stops what I must imagine would be a simpler switch from RHEL to Alma instead of Debian?
Sure, but you never know when they might drop stuff like this. With Debian you know it's in the main iso/core/whatever