Welcome to this month's AlmaLinux newsletter! It's been another busy month, so let's dive into it!

For the skimmers:

• AlmaLinux OS 9.6 and 10.0 are now available!
• We've announced AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver - submit to speak before June 23rd, and then join us August 9, 2025 just before SIGGRAPH.
• Board elections will be in August! Learn more in this blog post. If you want to be able to run in this year's election, make sure you submit your application to join before the end of May!
• University College London is hiring! Learn more about the 2 positions below.

New on the AlmaLinux Blog

General Availability of AlmaLinux 10.0 Stable!

AlmaLinux 10.0 "Purple Lion" is now available!

With this release, we've brought in some impactful improvements that target specific sections of our userbase while still maintaining compatibility with RHEL 10.

Read more from @Eduard Abdullin

General Availability of AlmaLinux 9.6 Stable!

AlmaLinux 9.6 "Sage Margay" is available for all supported architectures (Intel/AMD (x86_64), ARM64 (aarch64), IBM PowerPC (ppc64le), IBM Z (s390x)).

Read more from @Eduard Abdullin

x86_64_v2 EPEL for the Enterprise Linux 10 World

The build of EPEL packages for AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 is now complete and ready for use!

Check it out, share your feedback, and we'll be working on EPEL packages support for x86_64_v2 once 10.0 Stable is released.

Read the post by @Eduard Abdullin

AlmaLinux Events

We just announced AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver, which is happening August 9 (in tandem with Academy Open Source days and SIGGRAPH)! The call for papers is open until June 23, and you can learn more here.

The rest of 2025 is pretty packed. This is where we'll be visiting, exhibiting, or speaking so far through the rest of this year.

• June 5-8: Flock to Fedora
• June 12-14: DevConf
• June 13-15: Southeast Linux Fest
• Jun 23-27: Internet Governance Forum
• August 9: AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver
• August 10-14: Academy Open Source days and SIGGRAPH
• September 23-27: nerdearla: Buenos Aires
• October 12-14: All Things Open
• November 7-8: SFSCon
• November 16-21: SC25

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!

New on the AlmaLinux YouTube Channel

AlmaLinux in the VFX world

@Tristan Théroux from @SHED and Danny Smith from @Cinesite discuss Cinesite's use of AlmaLinux for desktops and rendering, and Danny shares his advice for migrating to AlmaLinux.

Meet the Live Media SIG!

Sonia Boldyreva and @Yuriy Kohut talk through live media image creation at AlmaLinux.

Community Spotlight

Community member Ben Thomas from University College London is hiring for two Senior Research Infrastructure Developers. If you're interested, make sure to apply!

We also have this newly updated website hero image, courtesy of Andrew Lukoshko. We love it! Check it out on https://almalinux.org

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