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IBM: Latest on Fedora 34 and Alternative to Centos, Almalinux Published on Tux Machines (http://www.tuxmachines.org) Home > content > IBM: Latest on Fedora 34 and Alternative to CentOS, AlmaLinux IBM: Latest on Fedora 34 and Alternative to CentOS, AlmaLinux By Roy Schestowitz Created 13/01/2021 - 8:49pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 13th of January 2021 08:49:05 PM Filed under Red Hat [1] Fedora 34 To Ship An ISO With The i3 Window Manager - Phoronix [2] While the i3 window manager has been around for more than a decade, it's taken until now for an i3 window manager spin of Fedora to be solicited and approved. Following the creation of a Fedora i3 special interest group last year, approved this week is providing an official Fedora spin with the i3 window manager in place of other desktop environments / window managers. This is the first Fedora release image to make use of a tiling window manager. Fedora Looks To Overhaul Its Community Outreach - Phoronix [3] In addition to pursuing many technical changes for its Linux distribution like systemd-oomd by default, Btrfs Zstd compression, and standalone XWayland releases, the Fedora project is also looking to overhaul its community outreach this year. Fedora's "Community Outreach Revamp" is to focus on existing outreach teams within Fedora that are "struggling to function" or need greater support for success. Open Mainframe Tessia Makes It Easy To Run Linux On Mainframe [4] Open Mainframe Project recently announced a new project called Tessia that?s designed to automate all the processes involving installation and configuration of Linux on Z systems. CloudLinux Renames Its CentOS Alternative ?Project Lenix? To ?AlmaLinux?[5] Last month, the CentOS team?s announcement to replace and shift full focus from CentOS Linux to its future replacement CentOS Stream led to the creation of new alternative distributions such as Rocky Linux by CentOS creator Greg Kurtzer, and Project Lenix by CloudLinux Inc. On the one hand, Rocky Linux targeted its first release in 2021 Q2, i.e., after March. On the other, Project Lenix aimed for 2021 Q1, i.e., before March. Continuing the latest development on Project Lenix, CloudLinux has now renamed this CentOS alternative as AlmaLinux. Free CentOS Replacement AlmaLinux To Be Available This Quarter [6] CloudLinux has named the free CentOS replacement AlmaLinux, previously code-named Project Lenix. Following Red Hat?s December 2020 announcement that the CentOS stable release is no longer under development, CloudLinux launched a project to deliver a drop-in replacement. The project was code-named Project Lenix. Project Lenix has now crystallized into AlmaLinux, a 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL 8, with a migration path from CentOS to AlmaLinux. Future RHEL releases will also be forked into a new AlmaLinux release. CloudLinux backs AlmaLinux with $1 million annual investment in development, and a commitment to supporting AlmaLinux through 2029. CloudLinux readies CentOS Linux replacement: AlmaLinux | ZDNet [7] When Red Hat, CentOS's Linux parent company, announced it was "shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release," the move ticked off many people. So, CloudLinux immediately announced it would create a new CentOS clone, Lenix, and that it would put over a million dollars a year behind the new Linux distribution. Now, it has a new name, AlmaLinux, and a more concrete plan. Red Hat Source URL: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/146443 Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/142 [2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-34-i3-Spin [3] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Community-Outreach-21 [4] https://www.tfir.io/open-mainframe-tessia-makes-it-easy-to-run-linux-on-mainframe/ [5] https://fossbytes.com/cloudlinux-renames-centos-alternative-project-lenix-to-almalinux/ [6] https://www.tfir.io/cloudlinux-centos-replacement-almalinux-to-be-available-this-quarter/ [7] https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudlinux-readies-centos-linux-replacement-almalinux/#ftag=RSSbaffb68.
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