RHEL clones -- Alma Linux and Rocky Linux (Was Re: openSUSE, CentOS, oh my!)

[Matthew Crews]

I do not recommend teaching people Void Linux in a classroom setting.

I know enthusiasts tend to like it, but for people that want to learn 
Linux (and potentially use it in a commercial setting), it does things 
different enough from the major mainstream distros that it's actively 
counter-productive to learn it.

But that said if there is going to be a lecture or two on the 
differences between A distro and B, C, D, etc., distros, then it would 
be a good one to include.

Ditto for NixOS, antiX, Alpine, and honestly Slackware at this point.

-Matt



On 2/6/25 17:02, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 12:07:15 -0700
> James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> I'd add that if your students want to learn linux well, they should
>> use one of the other distros as well.  Arch, gentoo, LFS, etc.
> Please add Void Linux to this list. It's very close to the metal,
> highly conforming to POSIX, and it's fairly simple (in terms of moving
> parts and thin interfaces, not in terms of having things done for you).
> Unlike Arch, the Red Hat biosphere, and the Debian biosphere, it uses
> the ultra simple runit init system rather than the 1.3 million LOC
> all-encompassing systemd. Like Arch, Gentoo and Funtoo, it's a rolling
> release, but Void Linux does a much better job of rolling release.
>
> SteveT
>
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