Alma Linux and EOS

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Dear EOS team,

we are now investigating in the replacement of CentOS 7 for server installations with EOS, both for EOS system itself as well as for servers or VMs mounting EOS with the FUSEX client.

Up to now Alma Linux 8 seems to be the recommended Linux distribution and version. So we will focus for the time being on Alma Linux although its future is not fully clear. Can Alma 9 already be regarded as a well tested and recommendable version for EOS, for both service and client side? Or should we still better stick to version 8?

Thanks in advance for feedback
Armin

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Hi Armin,

At CERN we are planning to move to Alma 9 in the following months. There are already some machines in production that are being installed with Alma 9 and the plan is to skip completely Alma 8.

Cheers,
Elvin

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Hi Elvin,

thanks a lot for the fast reply! That helps us in the decision how to best move forward.

Best
Armin