the BEST Red Hat Linux Clones

In this video we are going to be covering some of the key differences between RHEL, CentOS and may of the clones, forks, and flavors of these project. This might help you narrow it down to figure out what system will work best for you.

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00:00 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux
01:30 - CentOS "DEATH"
03:35 - Linode (Sponsor)
04:25 - RHEL Free
05:11 - CentOS Stream
05:55 - Rocky Linux
06:50 - AlmaLinux OS
07:38 - Oracle Linux
08:11 - EuroLinux
08:44 - VzLinux
09:47 - Honorable Mentions
11:20 - Fedora Server
12:13 - Which is best?

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[robbylock]

I'm a retired Unix/Linux System Administrator and still keep in touch with many current admins. For years CentOS was being used for development and testing before deploying code to production RHEL servers. With the change by Red Hat this is no longer an option. Yes there is a "free" RHEL license for developer use, but most of the installations wouldn't qualify for that license, especially for use as test servers. So of the alternatives, which is actually being deployed? Everyone I know has selected Rocky Linux for a number of reasons including that it is named for one of the founders of CentOS and is the project of the other founder. Thisisnt' to say AlmaLinux isn't a good choice, just not the one being selected by the people I know. Oh while I AM a Fedora user at the desktop, it is not a viable replacement for the CentOS use cases I mentioned.

[anon_y_mousse]

Despite being a Slackware user, I have a certain fondness for Red Hat, both the company and the OS. I used it back before there was a RHEL/CentOS/Fedora, back in the days of Windows 98. The computer I had back then came with a crappy soft-modem and Red Hat was the only Linux distribution that had drivers for it. Getting on the internet back then was an altogether different experience, but doing so with this shiny new toy of Linux cemented its place in my heart.

[zparihar]

AlmaLinux really is the best. Its not because of the legal structure of the community, but also how helpful the community is. (Its also the fastest to release when RHEL makes their releases)

[romangeneral]

You the only one that made the CentOS and CentOS stream difference understandable.
Thank You!!

[psfgtech]

You help connect my thoughts, a good teacher

[benbalach]

I know this is off topic, but nobody seems to talk about SUSE Linux Enterprise. The openSUSE Leap distribution is based off of (and 100% binary identical to) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

[korakys]

This video was 1 hour too late for me. But somehow I left my search tab open anyway, came back 2 hours later, the tab reloaded itself and I saw this video. Great breakdown, my Fedora install has been so buggy I was looking for a more stable alternative.

[mytech]

Aside from support, one of the big draws of RHEL is that they have the paid staff to performance tune it for common workstation and server hardware. It's not of major concern to most small server needs, but I am very curious how many RHEL performance optimizations make it into the the clones, or even upstream. Especially if somebody's hobby program requires all of the performance it can get.
I haven't seen a huge gain in every category vs some other community distros like Deb11, but RHEL does seem to edge them out in most categories while having major speed gains in a handful of tasks.(eg AES cryptography.)

[pablogonzales]

there is also miracle linux, a japanese distro successor to asianux also based on rhel 8.0

[izyan]

Been deploying two almalinux server one for testing, another one for production. Being non profit organization is what I prefer for

[JamesJones-mgts]

Just a perspective. I was glad to see an ecosystem form downstream of RHEL. In fact I like that CentOS Stream is upstream of RHEL now. It will have to be seen with version 10 but I like the idea of RHEL being downstream of CentOS Stream better than Fedora. I love Fedora but it is the bleeding edge and like the idea of CentOS stream being directly downstream from that and then hardened there and making it's way into RHEL... and let the clones downstream from that follow. We'll have to see how this works in practice of course.

[mehdiyahiacherif]

no joke, that was what i was searching for this week,

rh stack with fedora, rocky, alma and CoreOS, openshift (okd), openstack and ansible

on the other hand ununtu with maas, juju microk8s and ubuntu openstack

or just debian docker and portainer

still trying things out...

[caddr]

i installed RHEL 9 with Developer account but the intel integrated graphics is not found in repo or epel and gnome use llvmpipe that so slow so.. now i use RHEL 8 and it have that driver, this feature will be on Rocky and alma as well

[ArniesTech]

If I was to go that route, I would go with full blown RHEL. Red Hat offers free instances for home use which is amazing!

[damolin]

Also to remember Gregory Kurtzer was the original creator of CentOS and now rocky Linux. So if CentOS is anything to go by Rocky Linux in the long run should be awesome. Also sometimes it's not always about the faster updates when it comes to servers it's about stability.

[orlovskyconsultinggbr]

You have my subs, RHEL make sense if you a big company running multiple tons of servers in datacenter or even middle size company having own infrastructure.

[darthkielbasa]

Thank you sir. You deserve a fine Pennsylvania Flatbed Cigar for your efforts.

Do you have a public PO Box?

[jasonbonifacio]

Not an expert, but I think it’s more than just messaging / comms screw up. The fact that CentOS is now upstream essentially means that it’s not up to CentOS to ensure compatibility. Beyond compatibility, it’s now directly downstream from a non-enterprise distro, so it may now be as stable as a regular community distro—not what Debian-averse people are willing to run on their servers. And they did this by “embrace, extend, and extinguish, ” so it was reasonably perceived as a disingenuous tactic.

[letslearnsometech]

Love ♥️ Red Hat! Proud to be a RedHatter!

[qvoot]

Somebody know how to Install i3wm on almalinux 8/9?