ALESCo, corporate contribution, and the way forward
summary
AlmaLinux claims full ABI compatibility with RHEL while adding practical fixes: releases for minor RHEL updates land in ~6 days and majors in ~2 weeks; legacy hardware and features are reenabled (SPICE protocol, KVM on IBM Power, frame pointers for profiling). The project ships Btrfs support quickly — Btrfs support shipped in 8 days from RFC acceptance — and enables an Nvidia open-source driver workflow for secure boot. 32-bit support is being rebuilt — ~2,000 packages to build, ~60 left — and alternative signed kernels are under discussion.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to ALESCo
- 7:09How ALESCo makes decisions
- 11:50Btrfs support in AlmaLinux
- 14:08Legacy hardware and 32-bit support
- 18:27Building products on AlmaLinux
- 26:04Q&A session
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