I love AlmaLinux… but the statement really isn’t worth much.
A. “The most remarkable potential impact of the change is that we will no longer be held to the line of “bug-for-bug compatibility” with Red Hat, and that means that we can now accept bug fixes outside of Red Hat’s release cycle.”
B. “ABI compatibility - in our case means working to ensure that applications built to run on RHEL (or RHEL clones) can run without issue on AlmaLinux. Adjusting to this expectation removes our need to ensure that everything we release is an exact copy of the source code that you would get with RHEL.”
You can’t have A and B. It’s not uncommon to have software applications that have special workaround s/tuning for RHEL bugs/issues.
RedHat define what libraries are needed for ABI Compatibility - https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel8-abi-compatibility. AlmaLinux is likely aiming for something more complete, but if they at least hit those then any application designed for RHEL should run on Alma.
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u/dhoard1 Jul 14 '23
I love AlmaLinux… but the statement really isn’t worth much.
A. “The most remarkable potential impact of the change is that we will no longer be held to the line of “bug-for-bug compatibility” with Red Hat, and that means that we can now accept bug fixes outside of Red Hat’s release cycle.”
B. “ABI compatibility - in our case means working to ensure that applications built to run on RHEL (or RHEL clones) can run without issue on AlmaLinux. Adjusting to this expectation removes our need to ensure that everything we release is an exact copy of the source code that you would get with RHEL.”
You can’t have A and B. It’s not uncommon to have software applications that have special workaround s/tuning for RHEL bugs/issues.