Hi All,

I'm Jack a member of AlmaLinux's dev team and our community manager. Thanks Lamar for mentioning the release here. 

I wanted to reply because I am sure many here have lots of questions and please feel free to ask any that you may have, I'll try my best to answer. We share the same DNA and we tremendously value scientific research and computing and are glad to do anything we can to help that flourish. We mean that. We'd love to work with everyone here to remedy anything you think might need fixing and enhance anything you feel could use it.

A few comments I wanted to share surrounding development, is first, AlmaLinux is not owned by CloudLinux we put together the foundation to help make sure the mistakes of CentOS past are not repeated. We want this to stand independently on its own legs. Second, the dev team is awesome and this is a ton of hard work to pull this off. Everyone on the team has at least a decade of experience working on RHEL, CloudLinux OS or some other EL-type distro and so we have the knowledge and practice to make this happen, as you can see. Third, we see ourselves as part of the broader EL ecosystem and nothing will move forward without cooperation and so we are already engaged and working with RH and others in the ecosystem in order to make sure that what needs to be upstream gets there and whatever other global changes, be they in policy or code, get made.

Anyway, nice to meet everyone. Literally AMA. I may be offline for most of the day tomorrow with the kids but will respond to everything once I get back.

Jack