Jonathan Wright outlines AlmaLinux as a RHEL-compatible community distro that fills the “classic CentOS” role: a downstream rebuild aimed at stable enterprise and HPC fleets, but with its own community decisions. He mentions the recent 9.7 release and the push toward 10.1, framed as Linux for everything from a basement web server to large research labs. https://almalinux.org/
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A key theme is the post-2023 Red Hat/CentOS landscape: Fedora remains the upstream incubator, CentOS Stream now tracks the next RHEL minor release, and AlmaLinux follows as a downstream rebuild for teams that want reproducible baselines, long lifecycle updates, and predictable ABI/API behavior across nodes. For cluster admins, that translates into fewer surprises in toolchains, drivers, and userland dependencies when scaling workloads or rebuilding images today.
The most technical detour is Btrfs (often said as “butterfs”) arriving in AlmaLinux 10.1 even though it is not shipped in current RHEL builds. Wright frames it as ZFS-adjacent: checksumming, inline compression, copy-on-write, reflinks, subvolumes, and snapshot workflows that pair well with rollback, golden images, and fast cloning; scrub plus send/receive also become practical primitives. Filmed on the Supercomputing SC25 floor in St. Louis, the demo runs AlmaLinux on an Ampere ARM server while a live graph ramps CPU load up and down, illustrating performance-per-watt under load.
On governance, he emphasizes why AlmaLinux exists: it started with CloudLinux and former CentOS users, then transitioned into an independent nonprofit foundation with community elections, a board, a Technical Steering Committee, and SIG-style working groups. Sponsors range from hyperscalers (AWS, Azure) to silicon vendors (AMD) and research institutions like CERN, and that mix is presented less as marketing and more as a resilience route.
The takeaway is that AlmaLinux is positioning itself as a practical landing zone for organizations navigating CentOS Stream changes while still adopting modern storage and emerging CPU architectures. If you care about fleet management, secure update pipelines, and consistent OS images across x86_64 and ARM64, this conversation connects the ecosystem diagram to the day-to-day reality of keeping clusters and edge racks reliable while the Linux supply chain keeps moving ahead.
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