AlmaLinux 10.0 Stable Released - Unlike RHEL 10, It Continues Supporting x86-64-v2 CPUs
Building off the recent release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, AlmaLinux 10.0 stable is now available as this RHEL-derived popular community Linux OS alternative.
AlmaLinux OS 10.0 "Purple Lion" is now available for deploying on servers. As is always the case with AlmaLinux, deploying AlmaLinux on production servers is freely available and community supported.
While upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 raised their x86_64 baseline to the x86-64-v3 micro-architecture feature level, AlmaLinux 10 has decided to continue offering x86-64-v2 support. With continuing to retain x86-64-v2 support, Intel Nehalem / Silvermont and AMD Bulldozer / Jaguar era processors continue to be supported with AlmaLinux 10 where as x86-64-v3 with RHEL 10.0 mandates AVX and other newer CPU ISA features. AlmaLinux will also offer x86-64-v2 built EPEL packages.
AlmaLinux 10 is fully compatible with RHEL 10 while some other changes with this AlmaLinux update include UEFI Secure Boot on ARM platforms, SPICE support is present that has been deprecated in RHEL since v9.0, and there is tech preview support for KVM virtualization on IBM POWER.
AlmaLinux 10.0 downloads and more details on this big release via AlmaLinux.org.
I will have some new RHEL 10 / AlmaLinux 10 OS benchmarks soon but in case you missed it from the beta period: AlmaLinux 10 Beta Running Great With Nice Performance As Free/Community Alternative To RHEL 10.
AlmaLinux OS 10.0 "Purple Lion" is now available for deploying on servers. As is always the case with AlmaLinux, deploying AlmaLinux on production servers is freely available and community supported.
While upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 raised their x86_64 baseline to the x86-64-v3 micro-architecture feature level, AlmaLinux 10 has decided to continue offering x86-64-v2 support. With continuing to retain x86-64-v2 support, Intel Nehalem / Silvermont and AMD Bulldozer / Jaguar era processors continue to be supported with AlmaLinux 10 where as x86-64-v3 with RHEL 10.0 mandates AVX and other newer CPU ISA features. AlmaLinux will also offer x86-64-v2 built EPEL packages.
AlmaLinux 10 is fully compatible with RHEL 10 while some other changes with this AlmaLinux update include UEFI Secure Boot on ARM platforms, SPICE support is present that has been deprecated in RHEL since v9.0, and there is tech preview support for KVM virtualization on IBM POWER.
AlmaLinux 10.0 downloads and more details on this big release via AlmaLinux.org.
I will have some new RHEL 10 / AlmaLinux 10 OS benchmarks soon but in case you missed it from the beta period: AlmaLinux 10 Beta Running Great With Nice Performance As Free/Community Alternative To RHEL 10.