Go from CentOs to AlmaLinux?

[ericosman]

Hi all,

I'm running CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 now, and it may be smart to go to an other linux distro.
I found that AlmaLinux should be a good alternative(?).

If yes, has anyone been succesfull doing it the following way:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlmaLinux/almalinux-deploy/master/almalinux-deploy.sh
bash almalinux-deploy.sh

?
see : https://www.transip.nl/knowledgebase/artikel/3847-centos-8-upgraden-naar-almalinux/ (dutch)

Thanks.

 

[Active8]

Almalinux is 8 and you have Centos 7 so that script would not help, but you can try in place upgrade like mentioned here :

How to: inplace upgrade from Centos 7 to Almalinux 8.5

Just converted (in place upgrade) an DA Centos 7 box to Almalinux 8.5 As promised short tutorial that I made, many thanks and credits to @dmtinc to his support, good to mention that I did not had any network problems :) It took almost 1,5 hour on an VPS 6 vCPU and 16 gb of ram so do your math...

forum.directadmin.com

see : https://www.transip.nl/knowledgebase/artikel/3847-centos-8-upgraden-naar-almalinux/ (dutch)

This only for updating from Centos 8 to Almalinux 8