At AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver a couple weeks ago (videos coming shortly!) I announced the opening of nominations for this year’s election. I’ve been on the board for more than 3 years, so I can speak with some authority about it when I say: non-profit boards, especially those in the open source space, need you. 3 reasons you should join the AlmaLinux OS Foundation’s (or any other non-profit) board There are many reasons for joining the board for a non-profit, but they aren’t always easy...| AlmaLinux OS
Dealing with CVE-2024-1086| Jonathan Wright
2023 was a big year for the AlmaLinux community. As the year draws to a close, let’s take a look back at some big milestones! New versions of AlmaLinux OS 2023 marked the release of AlmaLinux 9.2, AlmaLinux 8.8, AlmaLinux 9.3, and AlmaLinux 8.9! Thanks to our amazing Core, Build, and Infra SIGs, our first releases this year were out at lightning speed. Even with the expanded testing that we’ve added with our implementation of OpenQA, 9.| AlmaLinux OS
This year has been full of all kinds of new and exciting steps for AlmaLinux. We topped 500,000 systems calling home to our now 300+ mirrors for updates. We began exploring what AlmaLinux looks like as an untethered enterprise linux operating system, and we’ve seen an outpouring of support from AlmaLinux users around the world. The opportunity to serve as chair of AlmaLinux has been extremely fulfilling, as I serve alongside dedicated board members. Today, I’m pleased to share that we’r...| AlmaLinux OS
Earlier this week a few vulnerabilities were reported to affect Intel and AMD CPUs. The AlmaLinux OS Foundation calls for the community to help test the freshly updated packages for AlmaLinux OS 8 and AlmaLinux OS 9. How do I install updated packages? As we recently changed the build process for AlmaLinux OS, and are now aiming to be RHEL compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we are now able to release updates without waiting for the patches to be released upstream. To help accommodate th...| AlmaLinux OS
EDIT, July 27th: as of 12 hours after the release we have still seen no reports of any errors from users who have applied this update. If you see any problems, feel free to report them to us: bugs.almalinux.org EDIT, July 26: We will be releasing this patch on July 27th at 7am US Eastern time. Read more on the forums. Edit, July 25: AMD has put out an official security bulletin that lists all of the impacted hardware and anticipated release dates of patches for older CPUs.| AlmaLinux OS
We posted a follow-up update on July 13, which you can read here: The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright As we discussed last week, on June 21 Red Hat announced that RHEL source code will only be available via the Red Hat Customer Portal. What is the status of security updates? Prior to Red Hat’s policy change, when RHEL published a package update of any sort (security or bugfix), they published the corresponding source code into a repository. Then AlmaLinux integrated the update into our own bu...| AlmaLinux OS
– We posted a follow-up post on June 30, which you can read here: Our Value is our Values We posted another follow-up update on July 13, which you can read here: The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright – Yesterday, RedHat announced another massive shift that impacts all rebuilds and forks of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Going forward Red Hat will now only be releasing the source code for RHEL RPMs behind their customer portal. Since all RHEL clones rely on the sources being published, this is caus...| AlmaLinux OS