I am still a member of the CentOS Forums and I went to the site to look up an old question for which I had an answer.
When I got to www.centos.org I discovered that they are now offering CentOS Stream 9 as a download. I am also aware that Red Hat is offering RHEL-9 as beta presently.
When will ALMALinux-9 coming out? Is there a plan or schedule for its release?
The CentOS Stream 9 content has been available quite a while now. They just made it more visible last week.
AlmaLinux [8] is built from released sources of RHEL 8. There is no RHEL 9 yet, so nothing to build from. Then again, AlmaLinux had a beta for 8.5 briefly before official release of RHEL 8.5. Nevertheless, the official AlmaLinux 9 release is bound to official release of RHEL 9. Soon After™, I presume.
In the meantime, isn’t CentOS Stream 9 (C9S) a decent technology preview of the future (RH)EL9 content?
We all know that (RH)EL does not provide wide selection of alternatives, like Desktop Environments. It took a good while for EPEL to populate after RHEL 8 was released. That seems to have improved and there are even beginnings of epel-next for C9S. Still, unless you are content with what will be in RHEL 9, you would have to wait to official release of RHEL 9 and then some before you could use AlmaLinux 9 “in production” (presuming it appears practically simultaneously with RHEL 9).
As anecdote, NVidia drivers were not in main ELRepo repository the moment when RHEL 8.5 released. Not even when AlmaLinux 8.5 was released. A trivial “dnf upgrade” was not possible immediately, but after a couple days.
Thanks @jlehtone.
I have just today finally downloaded C9S, because internet was out where I live and I was super busy at home with some chores.
Thanks for the feedback on the timelines.
At this point, CentOS/Red Hat is offering Stream 9, and says it’s “available,” but I don’t know if it is an official release at this point. I think they are still focused on RHEL 9 and when that will be officially declared a release.
Right now security patches are lacking in Stream 9. At this writing, c9s still doesn’t have the polkit patch that RHEL 8, Alma, Rocky, Fedora and CentOS 7 and 8 Stream have.
How many other things is it missing?
Also, while EPEL 9 continues to add packages, I expect there to be a lot missing until the RHEL 9 release.
is RHEL 9 schedule out?
RHEL 9 should be out in June.