Available distribution release AlmaLinux 9.7, synchronized with the new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7 and containing everything offered in this release changes. Installation images prepared for x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le and s390x architectures in the form of boot (1 GB), minimal (2 GB) and full image (10 GB).
Later, Live builds with GNOME, KDE, MATE and Xfce will be generated, as well as images for Raspberry Pi boards, containers, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and cloud platforms.
The distribution is, if possible, binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement RHEL 9.7 and CentOS 9 Stream. Changes include rebranding, removal of RHEL-specific packages such as redhat-*, insights-client, subscription-manager-migration*, kpatch*, kmod-redhat-*, rhc, spice* and virtio-win, and expanded hardware support.
In particular, compared to RHEL, in AlmaLinux added support for additional device identifiers Compaq, LSI SAS 10xx/2xxx, LSI MegaRAID SAS1078, HP NetRAID-4M, Adaptec 5400S, Dell PERC 2*/3*, Dell PERC5, QLogic ISP, Emulex BladeEngine 2/3, Emulex OneConnect, Themisto/Callisto Jupiter Platform, IBM 8i, Adaptec Catch All, CERC SATA RAID, Legend, etc.
In addition, a repository is available for use