On Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 9:11 AM Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 4/5/21 1:42 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > > On 4/5/21 12:55 PM, Ruslanas Gžibovskis wrote: > >> Also maintained by business unit, which might impact later changes > >> when you > >> tight your prod to it. > > > > A major part of the announcement videocast was about the formation of > > the 501c6 non-profit foundation that will back the distro. While it does > > indeed appear that everyone *currently* working on it works for > > CloudLinux it was also clear that their longer-term intention is to have > > the Alma Foundation be completely independent. > > > > Yeah, I know, I shouldn't be promoting the "other team," but I don't see > > them that way, and I would not want this list to be a source of any > > misinformation about them. > > > > Rich .. I agree .. I don't see Igor and company as the other team either. > > I wished the almalinux team well on their launch day on reddit. This is > because I know many of the people involved in CloudLinux and I have met > them plenty of times at cPanel conferences and other places. I trust > Igor and his team. > > I personally feel that CentOS Stream is a great distro and once you guys > actually see it in practice with all the engineering effort and > community involvement working as envisioned, you will like it and it > will meet your needs. > > In my post I said as much about CentOS Stream .. but also IF you still > want to do a downstream and not slightly upstream build of EL source > code, I definitely would look at AlmaLinux. > > Here is a link to my post: > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/AlmaLinux/comments/mgic42/congrats_on_almalinux_release/ > > My ultimate goal is to make CentOS Stream the most used community > distribution in the world .. but, in doing that there is no need to be > negative toward AlmaLinux. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > +1 agree, thanks for the additional information and staying positive in regards to other alternatives.