Hi there!
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest
AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more.
Quick notes:
- We now have a dedicated channel in <http://chat.almalinux.org/>
chat.almalinux.org for our Spanish-speaking community!
- We’ve got major updates for Azure users, and are now listed as an
Endorsed Distribution on Azure.
- We added another entry in the seres introducing our board to the
community.
- Tuxcare and CloudLinux renewed their sponsor membership and there was
an update to the FIPs process
Looking for ways to help? Here are a couple of good ones!The swag shop
needs a new tender! Are you someone with organizational chops, and an eye
for detail? The Marketing SIG is looking for someone to help audit what’s
there and the costs for each item, update what we’re offering, and help us
come up with some new designs for our Shop <https://shop.almalinux.org/>!
Email benny at almalinux.org, if you’d like to help out.Help on the forums!
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The traffic to the AlmaLinux forums has been steadily increasing over the
last year, and that means having answers to the questions there is more
important than ever! If you have a few minutes, use the link
lnx.rocks/forumhelp to help your fellow sysadmins, developers, and DevOps
engineers with opinions, answers, and feedback.
Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogAlmaLinux Named an Endorsed Distro in
Microsoft Azure
Earlier today we announced that AlmaLinux has been selected to join
the Endorsed
Distributions list on Microsoft Azure
<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/endorsed-dis…>,
a unique distinction with only 6 other distributions.
We are so grateful to the incredible Azure team for this, and are so
excited to see our community supported in this way. Visit the Microsoft
Linux and Open Source Blog - Announcing availability of AlmaLinux as an
endorsed Linux distribution in Azure
<https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/linux-and-open-source-blog/announcin…>
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to see their announcement as well. You can also read more in our blog post
here <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-30-almalinux-endorsed-distro/>.
Nov 12th - ALESCo meetup!
Since the inception of ALESCo just a few months ago, there has been a lot
of exciting news and work coming from ALESCo. Whether you’ve been following
along via the minutes <https://wiki.almalinux.org/alesco.html>, or
attending the meetings yourself, or engaging in the chat, we are so humbled
by the excitement around what we’re doing. Next month, we’re hosting a
meetup so that you can join our ALESCo team and ask all of your burning
questions! We hope to see you there
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-23-join-the-alesco-meetup/>!
Introducing AlmaLinux OS Kitten
Since we started building AlmaLinux directly from the sources that Red Hat
uses for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we have been able to deliver bug
fixes and security patches faster than ever before for our community. We
still keep our promise of compatibility with RHEL, and every deviation from
RHEL is recorded in our release notes, but our build and infrastructure
teams have been embracing that freedom even more.
CentOS Stream 10, which will eventually be the source for RHEL10, has
already started being built and is available for use today. Because we
anticipated many changes in 10, we wanted to get a head start on building
AlmaLinux OS 10. Earlier this year we started setting up infrastructure and
the build pipeline for AlmaLinux OS 10, and started testing using CentOS
Stream 10’s code. Based on this preparation work, we are excited to share
that we have successfully built a preview of AlmaLinux OS 10 that we are
calling AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10.
Read more about AlmaLinux OS Kitten in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-22-introducing-almalinux-os-kitten/>!
Welcoming CloudLinux and Tuxcare - Platinum Sponsor Members
CloudLinux <https://cloudlinux.com/> and its sister company TuxCare
<https://tuxcare.com/> have renewed their platinum-level sponsorship of the
AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and we’re so grateful! They are continuing the
commitment they made in 2021 of providing $1 million in annual support for
AlmaLinux. You can read more about this in our recent blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-16-cloudlinux-renews-sponsorship/>.
Announcing AlmaLinux 9.5 Beta!
AlmaLinux 9.5 Beta “Teal Serval” is now available for all supported
architectures:
- Intel/AMD (x86_64)
- ARM64 (aarch64)
- IBM PowerPC (ppc64le)
- IBM Z (s390x)
Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org.
A usual reminder: this is a beta release. It should not be used for
production installations. The provided upgrade instructions should not be
used on production machines unless you don’t mind if something breaks. If
you are looking to see how things are going to work in stable, you are on
the right track.
Get more details about this release on our blog here
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-15-announcing-95-beta/>!
Azure Marketplace Updates
This month, we shared some updates with our AlmaLinux Azure users. If
you’ve been using the original AlmaLinux Azure image for x86_64
architecture (VM Image URN: almalinux:almalinux:*), you should have
received an email notifying you that that image is being deprecated and
removed from the Azure Marketplace on 30 Dec 2024. Read this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-09-azure-marketplace-updates/> to learn
how this does or doesn't impact you!
Meet the board - Alex Iribarren
For our latest board member Q&A, we interviewed Alex Iribarren
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/iribarren/>. Alex opted for a text-based
interview, rather than a video, so you can find the full content in this
blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-08-meet-the-board-alex/>! You'll
also find a link to the playlist at the end of this post.
AlmaLinux 9.2 FIPS Validation Update
After a long wait (view the previous blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-09-19-fips-validation-for-almalinux/>),
the AlmaLinux 9.2 kernel received FIPS validation making it the first
software implementation to receive a FIPS 140-3 ESV certificate using
SHA3-256 as a conditioner. It’s also the first EL9 distribution to get a
FIPS 140-3 certificate for the kernel. View the certificate here
<https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/cert…>
or
read more about this update in our recent blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-07-fips-validation-for-almalinux-update/>
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Upcoming Events
This month, we had one event: All Things Open, and what a blast it was!
Keep an eye out to read our recap of ATO and NERDEARLA on our blog. We’re
also looking forward to quite a few events before we wrap up the year. Come
find us at:
- openSUSE.asia <http://opensuse.asia/>, November 2-3 in Tokyo, Japan
- SFSCon <https://www.sfscon.it/>, November 7-8 in Bolzano, Italy
- Seagl <https://seagl.org/>, November 8-9 in Seattle, Washington, US
- Ohio Linux Fest (OLF) <https://olfconference.org/>, November 15-16 in
Columbus, Ohio, US
- SC (formerly Supercompute) <http://supercomputing.org/>, November
17-22 in Atlanta, Georgia, US
If you see an event missing that you think we should attend, or if you know
of any amazing open source events in Asia, South America, or Africa, let us
know! Our community is growing quickly in those areas, and we’d love a
chance to connect with them!
We’re also looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help
staff our booths. If you like chatting with folks about Linux and open
source and are local to any of these events (or any others that you think
we should be at) fill out this Google form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykd…>!
We’ll cover your travel and hotel.
Thanks for being part of this amazing community.
benny Vasquez
Chair, Board of Directors @AlmaLinux OS Foundation
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