AlmaLinux Enterprise Support: TuxCare Webinar with Benny Vasquez

I hosted this webinar for TuxCare with Benny Vasquez, chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation. We covered a lot of ground in about an hour, and honestly the pre-show conversation was just as good.

I hosted this webinar for TuxCare with Benny Vasquez, chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation. We covered a lot of ground in about an hour, and honestly the pre-show conversation was just as good.

The core thread running through the whole thing was a question worth asking before you ever pick a Linux distribution: is this actually a strategic decision, or are you just grabbing whatever you know? Benny made a point early on that landed well: when you choose your distro, you need to understand what’s driving the organization behind it, because if that organization shifts priorities or disappears, so does your stability plan. That reframed the conversation from package managers and command sets to long-term infrastructure thinking.

We got into the AlmaLinux Foundation structure, how it was built specifically so the project can never be bought or sold, what the day-to-day looks like for a volunteer-driven distribution at enterprise scale, and how TuxCare’s enterprise support fits alongside a community distro like AlmaLinux. We also covered hardware support extensions in AlmaLinux 10, the CentOS 7 migration path, and what Benny called the goal: pick AlmaLinux and then not have to think about it again.

The tangents were good too. Benny’s WordPress story hit close to home.

Watch the full webinar on YouTube: AlmaLinux Delivers Security, Performance, and Open-Source Freedom

Hosting technical webinars with community leaders is one of the things I genuinely enjoy. Getting someone like Benny to think out loud in front of an audience produces better content than any script would.