Hi there! Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more. Quick notes: - AlmaLinux 9.5 stable is now available! - We get to announce even more new sponsors! - We’re starting to plan our 2025 event schedule! Looking for ways to help? Here are a couple of good ones! Help on the forums! 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. Volunteer for the Distros Room at FOSDEM! This year the Linux Distributions room at FOSDEM wi, and we’re going to need some help! Whether you want to help staff the door (and remind folks to be quiet), or announce speakers and help the audience ask questions, or help the speaker get set up and then stay on time, there is a lot to take care of! Sign up for the FOSDEM Distributions Devroom https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/distributions-devroom mailing list to see the volunteer sheet go out soon! You can also learn more in this blog post https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-11-14-fosdem-2025-distros-room/. Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogGeneral Availability of AlmaLinux 9.5 Stable! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.5 https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos.html codenamed “Teal Serval”! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures: - Intel/AMD (x86_64) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/x86_64/9.5.html - ARM64 (aarch64) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/aarch64/9.5.html - IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/ppc64le/9.5.html - IBM Z (s390x) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/s390x/9.5.html Torrents are available as well at: - Intel/AMD (x86_64) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.5/isos/x86_64/AlmaLinux-9.5-x86_64.to... - ARM64 (aarch64) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.5/isos/aarch64/AlmaLinux-9.5-aarch64.... - IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.5/isos/ppc64le/AlmaLinux-9.5-ppc64le.... - IBM Z (s390x) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.5/isos/s390x/AlmaLinux-9.5-s390x.torr... The AlmaLinux team also creates a variety of Cloud, Container and Live Images. Read more and find the full release notes on our blog https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-11-18-announcing-95-stable/! Announcing Silver Sponsor Members - Fastly, AMD, world4you Fastly has joined us this year as a new sponsor member, and AMD and world4you have renewed their sponsorship memberships. We’re so grateful for the contributions of our every-growing list of sponsors, as more and more companies prove that they believe in what we do. Find out a little bit about each of them in this blog post https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-11-11-welcome-october-sponsors/. Upcoming Events In November our community represented AlmaLinux all around the world at many different events: openSUSE.Asia https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSAS24, OSS Summit Japan https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-japan/, SeaGL https://seagl.org/, SFSCON https://www.sfscon.it/, OLF https://olfconference.org/about/, and SC ‘24 https://sc24.supercomputing.org/. We’ve also got some big plans for 2025, too! If you like chatting with folks about Linux and open source and are interested in helping us staff a booth at an event, fill out this Google form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykds...! We’ll cover your travel and hotel for any events that you attend on behalf of AlmaLinux. Stay up to date and join us!If you want to make sure you catch every update from us, sign up for the Newsletters mailing list https://lists.almalinux.org/mailman3/lists/newsletters.lists.almalinux.org/ or subscribe on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/almalinux-news-7123058222835376128/! benny Vasquez Chair, Board of Directors @AlmaLinux OS Foundation *I am sending this message now because it suits me, but I don’t expect that you will read, respond to, or act on it outside of comfortable hours for your time zone.*