I was curious why CERN and Fermilab chose AlmaLinux instead of Rocky Linux. After googling, I found out that the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, which controls Rocky Linux, is a public-benefit corporation. This is a for-profit type of corporation, unlike what the name suggests. The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is a 501(c)(6) non-profit, which in my mind is clearly the type of organization that should control such an OS.
I’m sorry for the stupid question, but I looked at both the websites of Rocky and Alma, and still cant quite figure out what does “Enterprise grade” distro mean.
They talk about stability, but Debian is stable too, yet it’s not “enterprise”.
Can anyone ELI5?
You can pay someone to complain to when something breaks and get them to fix it.