May 27, 2025 - As we announced last week on our blog, we are happy to share that we are building EPEL packages to support users in their adoption of our x86-64-v2 release of AlmaLinux OS 10. Trusted boot has long been required for bare metal devices, and is also becoming more and more popular in virtualized environments.

This page provides a step-by-step guide to downloading the AlmaLinux ISO image, creating a bootable USB drive, and using it to install AlmaLinux OS. ... More about requirements: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Technology Capabilities and Limits (opens new window).

All 3rd party packages for RHEL10 will target x86-64-v3, while the x86-64-v2 release of AlmaLinux OS 10 will only be suitable for workloads where using the default OS package set is enough, or where users will be able to rebuild any additional packages they require for x86-64-v2 architecture ...

August 12, 2025 - Secure Boot for ARM Platforms: AlmaLinux 10 offers support for secure boot for both Intel/AMD and ARM platforms. With the rise and popularity for virtualized environemnt, secure boot has pretty much become a requirement for bare metal devices, and luckily AlmaLinux 10 is very much capable of that.

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is designed as an integration between Windows and Linux. You can run the AlmaLinux terminal environment on a Windows machine. Supported AlmaLinux OS versions: ... More details and guidance steps can be found on the AlmaLinux WSL Wiki Page. Each supported architecture has various installation images available: DVD - effortless installation with all packages included, no additional repositories required.

May 27, 2025 - If you want to try something on your own, AlmaLinux 10.0 is releasing with a kernel package version of 6.12.0-55.9.1.el10_0.

June 4, 2025 - While Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 only supports the x86_64-v3 architecture, AlmaLinux OS 10 also extends the life of EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) for the x86_64-v2 architecture.

September 2, 2025 - This document describes the system requirements for your cPanel & WHM installation on an AlmaLinux OS server.

June 13, 2025 - As covered in the AlmaLinux 10 release notes, perhaps the biggest and most obvious technological difference in this version is that AlmaLinux offers a separate version for x86-64-v2 hardware.

December 11, 2024 - The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 10.0 Beta “Purple Lion” for all supported architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) Intel/AMD (x86_64_v2) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Beta ISOs are available ...

While upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 raised their x86_64 baseline to the x86-64-v3 micro-architecture feature level, AlmaLinux 10 has decided to continue offering x86-64-v2 support.

August 17, 2025 - Here’s what you need: CPU: 64-bit processor, preferably newer than 2010 models for better hardware compatibility. RAM: Minimum 2 GB (4 GB or more recommended for servers). Storage: At least 10 GB of free disk space.

2 days ago - That is because Kitten is based on CentOS Stream, and AlmaLinux 10 follows Red Hat 10’s release versions. It should not be anticipated that Kitten is or will be exactly what will be provided in the BETA version." Fedora Linux and CentOS Stream, the upstream projects from which AlmaLinux descends

Perhaps it is a small thing for now but this release shows the value in Alma building its own distribution from CentOS Stream instead of just recompiling the RHEL SRPMS like Rocky Linux does. Alma is maintaining support for x86_64_v2. Rocky cannot really do the same. Rocky needs to be a "bug for bug" match for RHEL and so Rocky 10 requires x86-64-v3 just like real RHEL does.

All 3rd party packages for RHEL10 will target x86-64-v3, while the x86-64-v2 release of AlmaLinux OS 10 will only be suitable for workloads where using the default OS package set is enough, or where users will be able to rebuild any additional packages they require for x86-64-v2 architecture ...

System Requirements Changes from 2024.6 CentOS7 to 2025.1 Almalinux · N-able N-central · The VM sizes listed are examples of the maximum supported configurations.

These are AlmaLinux Release Notes listed with Release Version, General Availability Date, Codename, Kernel Version. Version 10 will have active support until 31 May 2030, and security support until 31 May 2035.

July 7, 2025 - CentOS Stream 9 to CentOS Stream 10. The new upgrade paths include the following 3rd-party repository support: EPEL - available for upgrades to AlmaLinux OS only. Note, that the support works only for those packages from EL 9 that are currently ...

Built from the official AlmaLinux 10 ISO image with "Minimal Install" package group, has a small footprint (8GB) and no LVM, for faster boot times and reduced resource consumption. Uses GPT and UEFI to boot on the latest HW · With the latest security patches and updates, SELinux and RHUI enabled, this AlmaLinux10 image contains all AWS drivers and software needed to integrate in the cloud such as AWS CLI, ENA, NVMe · This Alma Linux 10.0 image has cloud-init enabled and root partition and filesystem are expandable to the size of the volume provided at the start of the instance