Hi Jack,

Thanks very much for the update.

Is AlmaLinux (AL) therefore going to be supported at as well as SL was 
(is, until SL is EOL, currently on end of releases) with paid 
professional staff for whom this is a responsibility in addition to 
being something of real (not just gainful employment) interest?  Unlike 
IBM RH EL or Canonical Ubuntu LTS, AL will have sufficient funding that 
in the event the for-profit corporation that started AL decides for 
financial gain to do an IBM RH Centos play, AL will continue? In the 
event that IBM RH only releases the absolute minimum of source code that 
the GPL, Linux, etc., open source licenses require, is AL planned to 
have the human, hardware, network bandwidth, and physical location 
resources to continue to support and develop AL as a viable hardened 
enterprise solution on all scales (from laptop workstations to large 
scale distributed compute engines)?

As this SL list presumably will end with the EOL of SL, will AL start 
(or currently has) such a list?  I am not referring to the "Ask Ubuntu", 
etc., lists, but one that has working professionals addressing real 
working issues (generally, not including "eye candy")?  I have 
continually been reminded on Ask Ubuntu that all of the work is 
volunteer; if one wants real Canonical "engineers", one pays.  On this 
list, there are comments and responses from paid professional Fermilab 
staff persons (as well as "volunteers").  Will EPEL and ELrepo continue 
to work with AL, and will there be backporting to support applications 
developed from the enthusiast releases (IBM RH Fedora, etc.)?  Canonical 
Ubuntu has repeatedly stated that LTS -- licensed for free -- is their 
"best work", as I assume AL (as an IBM RH EL clone in so far as IBM RH 
permits this) will also be "best work".

Take care.  Stay safe.

Yasha Karant

On 4/9/21 2:56 PM, Jack Aboutboul wrote:
> 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
>