AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not

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, with some small but intriguing differences from Red Hat's plans for RHEL 9.4. The Alma 9.4 beta follows 20 days after Red Hat, and support for DEP and the NX bit as early as the GRUB bootloader. Plus, at long last, support for Intel's Software Guard Extensions. It took Intel. This summarizes the highlights: Git 2.43, Git LFS 3.4.1, plus some optional new versions, Python 3.12, Ruby 3.3, PHP 8.2, nginx 1.24, MariaDB 10.11, and PostgreSQL 16.

What's interesting is that Alma Linux 9.4 is set to support kit that RHEL $NEXT will drop. The beta modifies a small list of device drivers (Generally speaking, upstream stable kernels provide greater security than vendor kernels. The Linux kernel interface to user space is what provides the stability that application vendors and customers rely on to support their most critical workloads.

CIQ's interest in long-term support kernels is documented. It is a primary backer of the Open Enterprise Linux Alliance, and, as we reported last month, the OpenELA recentlyPerhaps we are being overly suspicious, but we wonder if the alliance is encountering some blockages or hiccups in this code pipeline, which could be why it's looking into alternative paths.

For as long as there have been long-support-lifetime enterprise distros, each vendor chooses its own kernel version for its long-lived products and then maintains it for years. As we said whenFor us, the best outcome would be that the enterprise vendors coordinated with the upstream kernel team, and they all worked together on shared, common LTS kernel versions.

 

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