is presented Production distribution kit Almalinux 8.4 , synchronized with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 distribution and fully identical to it according to functionality, with the exception of changes related to rebranding and removing rhel-specific packages, such as RedHat- *, Insights-Client and subscription-manager-migration *. Build Prepared for architecture x86_64 in the form of bootable (709 MB), minimum (1.9 GB) and full image (9.8 GB). In the near future, it is also planned to publish build buildings for Arm architecture. All ALMALINUX is published under free licenses.
Distribution Almalinux is based on Cloudlinux in response to premature folding support CentOS 8 RED HAT (updates For CentOS 8, it was decided to stop at the end of 2021, and not in 2029, as users assumed). Despite the involvement of the resources and the Cloudlinux developers, the project oversees a separate non-profit organization Almalinux OS Foundation, which was created to develop on the neutral platform with the community. The development of the project allocated a million dollars a year.
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 Almalinux, is also positioned by Rocky Linux and Oracle Linux. 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.