February 12, 2026 - If you’re subject to compliance (PCI, HIPAA, etc.), check that AlmaLinux 10’s newer policies or defaults meet your requirements.

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.

April 16, 2026 - 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).

May 27, 2025 - 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 ...

March 16, 2026 - 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.

February 11, 2026 - This document describes the system requirements for your cPanel & WHM installation on an AlmaLinux OS server.

September 16, 2025 - # Bare minimum for AlmaLinux 9.x: CPU: x86_64 architecture (64-bit only) - 1 GHz processor minimum - Single core acceptable - Intel or AMD compatible - VT-x/AMD-V for virtualization (optional) RAM: 1.5 GB minimum - 2 GB strongly recommended ...

Join us at AlmaLinux Day: Los Angeles on July 18! | AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and 10.2 Stable now available! | New bylaws & the 2026 board election · An Open Source, community owned and governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution, focused on long-term stability, providing a robust production-grade ...

November 24, 2025 - 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 ...

May 27, 2025 - Yes, we're working hard to bring EPEL x86-64-v2 for 10.0 in about 2 weeks. ... General Availability of AlmaLinux OS 10.1 Stable!

November 24, 2025 - The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 10.1 codenamed “Heliotrope Lion”! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) Intel/AMD (x86_64_v2) ...

February 6, 2026 - We replaced the underlying operating system for N‑central starting in version 2025.1, moving from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux. The system requirements have been updated accordingly to reflect the change from version 2024.6 (CentOS 7) to 2025.1 and later (AlmaLinux).

May 31, 2025 - I set my Alma10 VM vcpu to " x86-64-v3 " with AES, UEFI boot, Q35, Virtio-GPU and it boots fine NOTE: CPU requirements increased for RHEL10, my (2nd) Proxmox host is a Ryzen 9 6900HX and I'm fairly sure the RHEL10 VM would *not* boot on my Qotom ...

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.

March 29, 2026 - The spec from Intel says it supports the following: Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2 But there are some other sources that says it does not support all the requirements for x86-64-v2.

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.

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 ...

May 4, 2026 - 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 ...

6 days ago - 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 ...

May 24, 2025 - Hi, I’ve been a long-time RHEL clone user since the days of CentOS 4.x. After CentOS 8.x went EOL prematurely I switched to Rocky Linux (after a brief stint on Oracle Linux). I have Rocky Linux running on all my desktops and servers. I noticed that 9.x doesn’t boot on some older hardware like some Intel Dual core processors at our local school.