[BlueOnyx:25192] Re: RedHat 9 Beta released - BlueOnyx 5211R development started

[Dirk Estenfeld]

Hello Michael,

oh I'm excited and I wish us that we hear you in any case not to grumble until here 😊
I know you have always categorically ruled it out in the past. But maybe technology is evolving at this point as well. Do you think there is a chance that there might also be a direct upgrade path from Almalinux/RockyLinux 8 to Almalinux/RockyLinux 9 ; that is, an upgrade without reinstalling and migrating?
Sure, there is EasyMigrate and that works really well. I just wonder if it might be even easier if the system could then be migrated from 8 to 9 later with a handful of commands?

Best regards,
Dirk

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Von: Blueonyx <blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it> Im Auftrag von Michael Stauber
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. November 2021 07:14
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Betreff: [BlueOnyx:25187] RedHat 9 Beta released - BlueOnyx 5211R development started

Hi all,

RedHat released the Beta of the upcoming RedHat Enterprise Linux 9:

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2021/11/03/red-hat-enterprise-linux-9-beta-here

I've grabbed a copy of the DVDs and will play with them in the next couple of days to get an early start on the development of a BlueOnyx version for it. The next free number is 5211R, so that's what it'll probably get.

With things being what they are with RedHat and CentOS we'll have to see what kind of roadmap they have planned. It is likely that RedHat 9 will be the stable release and that CentOS 9 will be their unstable rolling-release testbed and that will just not be stable enough to base critical infrastructure on.

But we can expect that (again) the guys at AlmaLinux and RockyLinux will jump to the rescue and will provide true and just rebranded 1:1 carbon copies for RHEL 9 sometime down the road. Same as they did for RHEL 8 when CentOS 8 was repurposed by their RedHat masters.

So BlueOnyx 5211R will most likely not be made with CentOS 9 in mind, but rather an upcoming AlmaLinux 9 or RockyLinux 9.

Either way: I'll get started on BlueOnyx 5211R and we'll see where it goes. If you hear loud grumbling and a frequent uttering of the German word "SCHEISSE!" from somewhere near the equator? That'll be me, again chasing more than 300 critically needed RPM dependencies that the RedHat
9 beta repositories don't carry yet. :p

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With best regards

Michael Stauber
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