AlmaLinux and the Open Source Way
summary
AlmaLinux claims full ABI compatibility with RHEL and ships identical package versions while adding community-requested fixes; minor releases land in 1–6 days after RHEL (typically 6), not the 30+ day CentOS delays. The distro re-enables legacy hardware, Spice and KVM on Power PPC, adds an x86-64-v2 build to run CPUs back to 2008 toward support through 2035, and produces signed NVIDIA drivers and redistributed CUDA libs. A formal ALESC committee plus SIGs approve changes; Btrfs in 10.1 moved from proposal (May) to beta (Oct) to stable (Nov).
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction to AlmaLinux
- 1:11Why AlmaLinux exists
- 3:42Release speed and security
- 5:26ABI compatibility explained
- 7:09Hardware and feature support
- 10:22Governance and decisions
- 13:36Btrfs and community proposals
- 15:43Support for older architectures
- 17:50NVIDIA official support
- 18:58Security and compliance tools
- 20:02Building products on AlmaLinux
- 21:54CloudLinux’s AlmaLinux integration
- 23:18Maintaining fewer packages
- 24:23Getting and migrating to AlmaLinux
- 25:47Major release upgrades
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