AlmaLinux: What it is and how to use it

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Those successful IT cognize each astir Red Hat deciding to displacement CentOS to the rolling-release (or continuous delivery) distribution, CentOS Stream. Unfortunately, this determination resulted successful galore die-hard CentOS admins losing spot successful the level completely. And plentifulness of captious third-party apps felt the nonstop same, galore refusing to enactment CentOS Stream.

Luckily, there's a replacement: AlmaLinux developed by CloudLinux, a institution with a coagulated estimation for supporting Linux. AlmaLinux 8.3, a escaped and open-source distribution, was archetypal released connected May 30th, 2021.

Is AlmaLinux a coagulated replacement for CentOS? Yes, and here's why: AlmaLinux is simply a 1:1 binary-compatible clone (fork) of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. In simpler terms, AlmaLinux is astir a c transcript of what CentOS utilized to be. And your institution tin spot it.

To instrumentality vantage of AlmaLinux, you'll request to cognize what it is, however to usage it and the steps you indispensable instrumentality to cleanable it aft installation. These TechRepublic Premium resources tin help.