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submitted 8 months ago by anders@rytter.me to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Enterprise Linux on desktop?

Anyone using enterprise Linux on their desktop such as RHEL, Alma, Rocky, CentOS etc.?

I'm curious if it's easy to use for this purpose or if the older packages are a pain.

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[-] anders@rytter.me 1 points 8 months ago

@Shareni
With bootleg RHELs you mean Alma and Rocky?

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah. They used to be RHEL derivatives, but now they're either upstream (Alma) or a mix of legally dubious sources and upstream (Rocky).

They can't be as stable, and 16 free RHEL licences is more than enough for personal or small business use.

[-] anders@rytter.me 1 points 8 months ago

@Shareni alma started to take sources from centos stream. so yeah upstream in a way.

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