{"id":25318,"date":"2021-03-31T14:09:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/almalinux-stable-alternative-centos-available\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T12:15:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T12:15:03","slug":"almalinux-stable-alternative-centos-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/en\/almalinux-stable-alternative-centos-available\/","title":{"rendered":"AlmaLinux, the first stable alternative to CentOS is now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its name gives many clues about its functionalities. <strong>AlmaLinux 8.3<\/strong> nods to what would have been the next version of the Red Hat distro, CentOS 8.3. It is a <strong>binary level clone of RHEL 8.3<\/strong> and is ready to use in multiple environments, be it <strong>full installations, virtual machines, cloud, servers, containers<\/strong>&#8230; There are official images to cover almost any computing need.<\/p>\n<p>It is a project backed by a team with extensive experience since it is the work of the <strong>creators of CloudLinux OS<\/strong>, a distro derived from CentOS that dates back more than ten years. On their website, they assure that it will have a <strong>very long support period<\/strong> and that <strong>they will soon announce the compatibility with ARM<\/strong>. In addition, they highlight that it is <strong>Open Source, free<\/strong> and that it has been designed for <strong>enterprise use<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>AlmaLinux 8.3 is now available for download, and they have also released a script that makes it easy to <strong>migrate from CentOS, RHEL and Oracle Linux<\/strong>. Links to both items can be found in this post <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/almalinux.org\/blog\/almalinux-os-stable-release-is-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on the official website<\/a><\/strong>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>AlmaLinux<\/strong> team has announced the availability of the <strong>first stable version of its operating system<\/strong>. It is a fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that arises as an <strong>alternative to CentOS<\/strong>. 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