Almalinux is one of the distributions born when CentOS Linux (non stream version) is about to end its mission, and has gained a certain popularity in the Linux industry, providing support for those looking for a cost-free / community alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Just a week after RHEL 9.0 went online, almalinux 9.0 was released today.
Following the full listing of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 last week, almalinux 9.0 has entered the GA state. The beta version of almalinux 9 has been available since April. After the debut of RHEL 9.0 upstream, the development progress has been significantly accelerated. Others probably remember that as early as may 2019, after RHEL 8.0 was released, CentOS 8.0, as a downstream version, did not start GA until September 2019. Over the years, weeks or even months of delays have not been uncommon for these community / cost-free RHEL alternatives, whether CentOS, previous scientific Linux, and others. Therefore, it is quite exciting to see almalinux first launch the choice based on RHEL 9.0.
In the past year, almalinux has gained considerable fame as a zero cost Enterprise Linux distribution of CentOS / RHEL.
Like the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, almalinux 9 uses the Linux 5.14 kernel, GCC 11 as the system compiler, python 3.9, and other software package versions / sources the same as rhel9. RHEL / almalinux 9 also emphasized the improvement of cockpit network management interface, the enhancement of kernel real-time patch, the improvement of container and cloud integration, OpenSSL 3, and various other security improvements.
Almalinux 9.0 is available for x86_ 64, aarch64, power ppc64le, and IBM s390x.
Via almalinux Org can be downloaded for free and learn more about almalinux 9.0: