Month: June 2024

AlmaLinux, the Linux distribution conceived as a CentOS replacement, on Wednesday released AlmaLinux 8.4. This release, based on last week’s just-released version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, comes about a month after the release of AlmaLinux 8.3, which was the distribution's first stable release.The distribution was conceived in December after Red Hat announced that CentOS Linux, a popular downstream copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), is being replaced by CentOS Stream. Support for CentOS 8 is slated to be discontinued at the end of this year, while support for CentOS 7 will continue through June 30, 2024, its originally…

AlmaLinux FORT MYERS, FLA., USA, June 11, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The AlmaLinux OS Foundation, a nonprofit stewarding the community-owned and governed open-source CentOS alternative AlmaLinux OS, today announced support for Raspberry Pi 5. For detailed information and downloads, visit almalinux.org/blog. With its notable presence in the education sector for teaching programming and computing, its increasing adoption in the hobbyist community, and its adoption by enterprises for use anywhere a micro-board device is needed, this latest rendition of Raspberry Pi (officially released in October 2023), enjoys a fast-growing following within the AlmaLinux community. The efforts surrounding AlmaLinux Raspberry Pi 5 support…

The AlmaLinux Foundation, which produces the community-owned and governed CentOS alternative AlmaLinux, has announced support for the Raspberry Pi. In a statement, the Foundation said the most recent Raspberry Pi had a sizeable presence in the education sector for teaching programming and computing. Support for AlmaLinux Raspberry Pi 5 has been contributed by Koichiro Iwao, an engineer who works at Cybertrust Japan. “Here in Japan, the Raspberry Pi community is vibrant,” said Iwao aka @metalefty on GitHub. “The incredible hardware improvements that the Raspberry Pi 5 brings over the Raspberry Pi 4, along with the increasing urgency with which the…

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation, a nonprofit managing the community-owned open-source CentOS alternative AlmaLinux OS, has announced support for the Raspberry Pi 5. This has been a while coming as the latest version of the Pi, released in October 2023, has been growing in popularity within the AlmaLinux community. Koichiro Iwao, an engineer at Cybertrust Japan, played a major role in bringing AlmaLinux Raspberry Pi 5 support to fruition. "In Japan, the Raspberry Pi community is vibrant," he said. "The hardware improvements of the Raspberry Pi 5 over the Raspberry Pi 4 and the community's increasing demand for this support motivated…

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