almalinux.org VS raspberry-pi

https://almalinux.org (At the bottom, "Backed By")

This might be a good use case for RHEL family distribution (such as CentOS Stream or AlmaLinux) or Debian. These are much longer lived distributions, and provide fewer update churn over time than other distributions.

If If you feel more comfortable on a RHEL based distro, there a good alternatives to CentOS such as AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux.

This situation still exists and Gregory Kurtzer's RockyLinux (Greg started CentOS originally), CloudLinux's AlmaLinux, and others exist to fill the need for a freely installable RHEL clone.

If you go to https://almalinux.org and click download, then click "Get Live Media Image", you'll be sent to a page with that link as well.

Look at AlmaLinux also. I'm not sure of any technical reason why you'd chose one over the other, but AlmaLinux is a public non-profit with a board, Rocky ownership is a private org.

https://almalinux.org/

I moved everything to UbuntuLTS also, and I'm not moving again. But if I had waited, and I sort of wish I had, I'd probably be moving to Alma.

I was raised on Debian and I've been using it for all my Linux servers. On my ESXi I use VMware Photon OS as the host OS for my Docker. My primary client is using Alma Linux as the host OS for their Docker deployments.

Then copy and edit the AlmaLinux-9-RaspberryPi-console.aarch64.ks file from GitHub https://github.com/AlmaLinux/raspberry-pi/blob/master/AlmaLinux-9-RaspberryPi-console.aarch64.ks.

Relatedly, Alma 8 has a RPI release based on Pablo's work. See here: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/raspberry-pi/

Grab a copy pop it on your Pi and if you have any questions, would like to discuss anything or contribute, join us on the AlmaLinux Community Chat the Forums and Reddit.

We've been pretty busy this year, we've put out 3 releases, 8.3, 8.4 and the latest being 8.5 just last week 2 days after RHEL. We have cloud images on AWS, Azure, GCP and a host of other cloud providers, provide several cloud and container images (we have almost 400K docker pulls!!), Live Images and a Raspberry PI Image. We also released Project ELevate which is an in-place upgrade tool for major version migrations of EL family distributions, which was a HIGHLY request feature for a very long time. We also have a CIS Security Benchmark which was published a few weeks ago. More than anything else though, we are a friendly, open and welcoming community with a diverse set of people from around the world.

The Raspberry Pi image is also updated to the newest version.

GH Repo with Tutorial: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/raspberry-pi/