AlmaLinux
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 10:42 am
Hello,
My new project is installing AlmaLinux OS on a CF-31 MK4. Why? I have a few reasons. Mostly, I wanted to have an rpm-based OS like I use at work, to play around with at home for a change. I've been a staunch Debian user for many years.
At the office I use mostly Cloudinux which is a resource (LVE) and filesystem (CageFS) isolation system which is best suited for multi-user hosting. It ran on top of CentOS, based on RedHat.
The CentOS 8 project is dead. Its developer started RockyLinux as a successor. The rest of the project maintainers started CentOS Stream
Cloudlinux started AlmaLinux as its own replacement to CentOS which will have proper CloudLinux support. As it happens, they made a few versions with desktop environments, so I get to try it out with all the trappings of a standard window manager and tools, like XFCE4. They also have Gnome and KDE versions. So far I was pleasantly surprised as it mostly works fine but as just about every distro out there, it has its share of quirks.
Screen dimming hotkeys and wifi are the usual suspects that need to get worked on. Wifi just needs you to plugin in ethernet and run yum install iwl6000g2n-firmware.noarch to get that up and running. The rest of the little niggling things like no Network Manager applet and tablet calibration util probably have to do more with the XFCE4 version I chose to install. But yeah, the tablet itself was immediately running.
I'll post more when I have the time.
My new project is installing AlmaLinux OS on a CF-31 MK4. Why? I have a few reasons. Mostly, I wanted to have an rpm-based OS like I use at work, to play around with at home for a change. I've been a staunch Debian user for many years.
At the office I use mostly Cloudinux which is a resource (LVE) and filesystem (CageFS) isolation system which is best suited for multi-user hosting. It ran on top of CentOS, based on RedHat.
The CentOS 8 project is dead. Its developer started RockyLinux as a successor. The rest of the project maintainers started CentOS Stream
Cloudlinux started AlmaLinux as its own replacement to CentOS which will have proper CloudLinux support. As it happens, they made a few versions with desktop environments, so I get to try it out with all the trappings of a standard window manager and tools, like XFCE4. They also have Gnome and KDE versions. So far I was pleasantly surprised as it mostly works fine but as just about every distro out there, it has its share of quirks.
Screen dimming hotkeys and wifi are the usual suspects that need to get worked on. Wifi just needs you to plugin in ethernet and run yum install iwl6000g2n-firmware.noarch to get that up and running. The rest of the little niggling things like no Network Manager applet and tablet calibration util probably have to do more with the XFCE4 version I chose to install. But yeah, the tablet itself was immediately running.
I'll post more when I have the time.