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Website: almalinux.org
Developer: CloudLinux

What is AlmaLinux OS?

AlmaLinux is a free and open-source Linux distribution created by CloudLinux. AlmaLinux was announced shortly after Red Hat’s decision to discontinue the development of CentOS. AlmaLinux is a 1:1 binary compatible RHEL fork and CentOS replacement.

The distribution was named Project Lenix at first, but the company decided to change the name to AlmaLinux shortly after. The word “Alma” means soul in Spanish and it comes from the Latin word “Almus”, which means “nourishing, kind”. It symbolizes the Linux community as the soul of Linux.

The Beta version of AlmaLinux was released on February 1, shortly after Red Hat’s announcement. CloudLinux published the first stable release on March 30. The company also announced a $1 million annual sponsorship for the project which will last until 2029.

AlmaLinux offers an effortless switch from CentOS, with zero migration downtime. CloudLinux also created the AlmaLinux OS Foundation to take over its development and governance in March of 2021.

Recent AlmaLinux OS News

Cloud7 Podcast – Episode 09: AlmaLinux OS

by Rusen Gobel

July 2, 2022 6:16 pm

AlmaLinux OS is one of the enterprise-focused Linux distributions and one of the alternatives for CentOS. The operating system is ...

AlmaLinux team requests for comment: kmod signing by AlmaLinux OS Foundation

by Atalay Kelestemur

June 21, 2022 10:51 pm

AlmaLinux is an open-source, free-to-use community rebuild of RHEL 8.X and RHEL 9.X. The non-profit AlmaLinux OS Foundation governs the ...

AlmaLinux announced ALBS: AlmaLinux Build System

by Atalay Kelestemur

June 20, 2022 8:30 pm

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation published ALBS; a new build system that makes it easy for community members to build packages ...

AlmaLinux OVAL stream is now available

by Rusen Gobel

June 16, 2022 9:45 pm

One of the best CentOS alternatives in the enterprise-focused Linux distributions area, AlmaLinux is getting new features as its development ...

AlmaLinux takes the crown from CentOS

by Rusen Gobel

June 15, 2022 10:25 pm

If you are an enterprise Linux server administrator, most probably you’d worked with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Oracle ...

How to install WordPress via Docker on AlmaLinux

by Rusen Gobel

June 4, 2022 12:00 pm

Sometimes installing and running a specific software on Linux distributions cause headaches. Those often require many steps to proceed with; ...

How to install Zabbix on AlmaLinux

by Rusen Gobel

June 4, 2022 11:00 am

What is Zabbix? Zabbix is an enterprise-focused open-source network monitoring tool that monitors the hardware and services in the network. ...

AlmaLinux 9 “Emerald Puma” is available for download

by Rusen Gobel

May 27, 2022 3:35 pm

The developers of the AlmaLinux operating system have announced the general availability for AlmaLinux 9. This release came one week ...

AlmaLinux 8.6 Stable is ready to download

by Erdem Yasar

May 12, 2022 6:41 pm

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation announced that the stable release of AlmaLinux OS 8.6 for the x86_64, aarch64, and ppc64le architectures ...

AlmaLinux 8.6 Beta is available

by Erdem Yasar

May 9, 2022 3:20 pm

The beta version of the popular CentOS alternative, AlmaLinux is now available for users to test. The beta release is ...

AlmaLinux 9 (Emerald Puma) Beta is ready

by Rusen Gobel

April 20, 2022 3:49 pm

One of the most successful CentOS alternatives, AlmaLinux, is about to reach the 9.0 version. The CloudLinux-backed distribution is aiming ...

AlmaLinux OS Foundation announces new members

by Erdem Yasar

March 21, 2022 7:30 pm

The popular community-owned and governed open source CentOS replacement, AlmaLinux four new members have joined. Sine Nomine Associates has joined ...