To continue on what Sean said, we are dedicated to adding many new installers, including podman installers which will work in user-space. I will be attempting to live stream or at least post some of the behind the scenes progress on these new builds on social media, as vibe coding just looks cooler than the old way of me staring out my window and thinking.
I did want to comment on the reason for the extended release, and this is because of the testing and internal development structure. Each of our co-founders has a particular domain and strengths and we all work together, and sometimes debate vehemently to produce the best final result. This coupled with the issues surrounding el8 in general made this release especially painful. It took longer then we liked to see what OS was going to emerge after the CentOS fallout. Once that happened there was some lag in the developer community to build the underlying packages we need to provide shared hosting on Alma 9. These slowdowns upstream and our way of doing things meant it took a while to get everything tested and ironed out. We still might have missed some edge cases and are here to help if you notice any bugs.
We have been in this space for a very long time in one form or another and even with everything changing I only see "Vibe Coding" and our attempt to stand up the market for "Vibe Deploy" only growing and enabling a new generation of developers. And not just the kids, I have met many people my age and older who are rediscovering software development through LLMs. They have boosted our ability to build out boilerplate at least. These developments and access to Alma 9 will enable us to provide an amazing user experience for you. It will free you to build the best applications and back end servers. Thanks everyone for hanging in there. We are here to build together.
