[GemStone-Smalltalk] GemStone on Alma Linux ?

[Johan Brichau]

Hi Norm,

That’s excellent news.
We will move forward testing on Alma Linux with both GemStone 3.4.5 and 3.6.5 this fall. 

Johan

> On 19 Sep 2022, at 20:24, Norm Green via GemStone-Smalltalk <gemstone-smalltalk at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Johan,
> 
> GemTalk is planning support for both Rocky and Alma Linux. Since both distros assert binary compatibility with RH there should be no issues.
> We currently have a Rocky 9 machine we've tested with and found no problems.
> 
> Norm
> 
> 
> On 9/19/22 10:06 AM, Johan Brichau via GemStone-Smalltalk wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Is anybody using Alma Linux (https://almalinux.org/) to run GemStone/S 64 bit?
>> 
>> We are a long-time user of CentOS, happily running GemStone/S 64 3.4.5 on it now, but with CentOS 7.9 being end of life in April 2024, we are looking at alternatives together with our hosting provider.
>> Our hosting provider normally supports Debian Linux, which is quite different from CentOS, but they are now also proposing Alma Linux for all CentOS users, like we are at Yesplan.
>> 
>> After a couple of days, we already had all our current Ansible playbooks for server management converted for Alma Linux.
>> Moreover, GemStone/S 3.4.5 seems to run fine on this distribution at first sight.
>> 
>> I know this distribution is not in the GemStone compatibility table. Though, Alma Linux does say it is binary compatible with RedHat.
>> Maybe a long shot but I have to ask: is there any chance of evaluating Alma Linux for the compatibility table and/or some things to execute (other than running our setup) to find any issues myself?
>> 
>> Thanks for any thoughts and answers!
>> Johan
>> 
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