AlmaLinux is a free, community-governed enterprise distribution created when CentOS changed course, and it is stewarded by a nonprofit foundation with corporate and individual members. Its purpose is continuity: each release maintains application-level compatibility with the matching Red Hat Enterprise Linux version, so software built for RHEL is expected to run unmodified, and each major release carries the long support horizon enterprise deployments assume. Packages are RPMs managed with DNF, security advisories are published methodically, and images exist for servers, containers, clouds, and multiple architectures. AlmaLinux has also shown independence, at times shipping fixes ahead of upstream and retaining hardware support its parent dropped. Typical users are businesses, universities, and administrators running production services without license costs. It is a server system first, so an OpenFactory browser VM is mainly a way to explore the administration environment before adopting it in infrastructure.
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Need Alma Linux for more than a quick browser preview?
The buttons above launch an ephemeral browser VM, perfect for kicking the tires. Paid plans unlock the things you'd actually use it for:
- ✓Persistent VMs you can SSH into and customize
- ✓Snapshots, your own packages, a downloadable ISO
- ✓Fleet deployment to your own machines (on-prem or cloud)