The first stable output of the distribution Almalinux , created in response to premature folding of CENTOS support 8 Red Hat (Refreshing for CENTOS 8, decided to stop at the end of 2021, and not in 2029, as users assumed). The project is based on Cloudlinux, which provided resources and developers, and transferred under the wing of a separate non-commercial organization Almalinux OS Foundation to develop on a neutral site with community participation. A million dollars a year was allocated to the development of the project.
build Prepared for X86_64 architecture in the form of bootable ( 650 MB), minimum (1.8 GB) and full image (9 GB). In the near future, it is also planned to publish build buildings for Arm architecture. The release is formed on the basis of the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 and is fully identical to it according to functionality, with the exception of changes related to rebranding and removing RHEL packet-specific packets, such as Redhat- *, Insights-Client and Subscription-Manager-Migration *. All developments published under free licenses.
Distribution develops in accordance with the principles of the classic CentOS, is formed via a rebeling of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 batch database and saves full binary compatibility with RHEL, which allows it to be used for transparent replacement for classic CentOS 8. Updates for the Almalinux distribution branch, based on package RHEL 8, promise to release until 2029. To migrate existing installations of CentOS 8 on Almalinux enough Download and run special script .
Distribution free for all categories of users is developing with the community attracting and using the management model, similar to the organization of the Fedora project. Almalinux is trying to find the best balance between corporate support and community interests – on the one hand, the development of the resources and developers of Cloudlinux, which has extensive experience, accompanied by Rhel forkov, and on the other hand, the project is transparent and controlled by the community.
Alternatively, the old CentOS, except for Almalinux, also positioned Rocky Linux (test assemblies promise to publish March 31) and Oracle Linux (tied to interests Corporation). In addition, Red Hat has provided the possibility of free use of RHEL in organizations developing open software, and in the environment of individual developers consisting of up to 16 virtual or physical systems.