Original announcement instead of blog spam: https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-04-15-announcing-94-beta/
They re-enable some things, restoring support would’ve been fixing it up if something breaks.
Is it just me or does the headline not fit the article
CentOS no longer offers support for users who re-enable those things. AlmaLinux has in theory committed to keeping those things set so that users don’t have to manually re-enable them, and that to keeping them working, at least for now.
On the off chance that ALL THAT is true, it would be “restoring support” … but I have no skin in this game and doubt that many, if any, CentOS users would be swayed to a new distro like so.
The author called RHEL an upstream of Alma multiple times in the opening paragraph. Didn’t need to read more to know the article is trash.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta is out today for this popular community-oriented Linux distribution derived from upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Besides pulling in the RHEL 9.4 Beta changes, AlmaLinux 9.4 also restores hardware support for some devices that was deprecated by upstream RHEL.
The RHEL 9.4 Beta shipped in late March with the Intel Data Streaming Accelerator driver being fully supported, Intel SGX now being fully supported, NVMe over TCP being a tech preview feature, the ability to build FIPS-enabled RHEL for Edge images, Python 3.12 can be optionally installed, and many other upgrades available as well as some new module streams.
In addition to AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta pulling in all of the RHEL 9.4 Beta changes, AlmaLinux has restored support for some older hardware devices that is being phased out upstream.
One of the differentiators being pursued by AlmaLinux is to (re)enable support for some older hardware/drivers that otherwise is losing focus with upstream Red Hat.
For the AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta the expanded hardware support includes: aacraid - Dell PERC2, 2/Si, 3/Si, 3/Di, Adaptec Advanced Raid Products, HP NetRAID-4M, IBM ServeRAID & ICP SCSI be2iscsi - Emulex OneConnectOpen-iSCSI for BladeEngine 2 and 3 adapters hpsa - HP Smart Array Controller lpfc - Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI megaraid_sas - Broadcom MegaRAID SAS mpt3sas - LSI MPT Fusion SAS 3.0 mptsas - Fusion MPT SAS Host qla2xxx - QLogic Fibre Channel HBA qla4xxx - QLogic iSCSI HBA In these cases it was just PCI IDs that needed to be added back in that were dropped by RHEL.
The original article contains 267 words, the summary contains 256 words. Saved 4%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
