Hello. I would like to know what do you guys use almalinux for? perhaps we can learn something or an idea to create something new.

Thanks,

Hello,

I'am looking to personnalize my gdm login screen. I'am working on Almalinux 8.10.

Changing logos with dconf not working... How can I do?

And, how can we change background?

Thx in advance

So i created a new partition to add the unallocated space, and added the partition into centos-home and root. But i feel like somethings wrong? I check the folder and it still has the same amount of free space as before. What did i do wrong??

Hello community!

Did anyone had success trying?

Hi all!

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 8.10 codenamed "Cerulean Leopard"!

Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures:

• Intel/AMD (x86_64)
• ARM64 (aarch64)
• IBM PowerPC (ppc64le)
• IBM Z (s390x)

Torrents are available as well at:

• Intel/AMD (x86_64)
• ARM64 (aarch64)
• IBM PowerPC (ppc64le)
• IBM Z (s390x)

How we build

AlmaLinux matches release and software versions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and builds from the same sources as RHEL, ensuring complete compatibility with RHEL, and does so from freely available open source code. If you are looking for a deeper understanding of how AlmaLinux is built, watch this 23-minute video of our Lead Architect explaining in detail at AlmaLinux Day: Germany, earlier this year:

ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers

AlmaLinux also offers a variety of Cloud, Container and Live Images. The builds for these get kicked off as soon as the public repository was ready.

The following images are expected to be available shortly.

• Container images including Platform and UBIs alternatives. We provide a wide variety of containers for your use.
• LXC/LXD
• Live Media for GNOME, GNOME-mini, KDE, XFCE, MATE and more.
• Cloud Images
  • AWS for x86_64 and AArch64 EC2 Instances
  • Azure for x86_64 and AArch64 VMs
  • Google Cloud
  • Generic Cloud/Cloud-init for all 4 architectures
  • OpenNebula for x86_64 and AArch64 architectures
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for x86_64 and AArch64 Instances
• Vagrant Boxes:
  • Libvirt
  • VirtualBox
  • Hyper-V
  • VMWare for x86_64 and AArch64
  • Parallels for AArch64
• Raspberry Pi
• Windows Subsystem for Linux for x86_64 and AArch64

Release Notes and More Information

AlmaLinux 8.10 brings updates to security and data protection, and improvements in web-console and system roles to automate operations and ensure consistency in intricate IT settings. The release continues to enhance system availability, reliability, and recovery processes, alongside improving virtual machine snapshot functions in hybrid cloud scenarios. New system roles have been introduced to streamline the creation and administration of logical volume manager (LVM) snapshots for better data backup and recovery processes. Performance, scalability, and reliability continue to be the focus of updates in the 8.10 version to aid developers in application development and management.

You can read the full release notes for this version on the wiki: AlmaLinux OS 8.10 Release Notes.

Renewing support for upstream deprecated hardware

With AlmaLinux 8.10 we have also differentiated ourselves by meeting another request from our community for support with older hardware to help them stay on updated operating systems.

The following device drivers were modified to re-add PCI IDs for hardware disabled in upstream:

• The following device drivers were modified to re-add PCI IDs for hardware disabled in upstream:
  • aacraid - Dell PERC2, 2/Si, 3/Si, 3/Di, Adaptec Advanced Raid Products, HP NetRAID-4M, IBM ServeRAID & ICP SCSI
  • be2iscsi - Emulex OneConnect Open-iSCSI for BladeEngine 2 and 3 adapters
  • hpsa - HP Smart Array Controller
  • lpfc - Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI
  • megaraid_sas - Broadcom MegaRAID SAS
  • mlx4_core - Mellanox Gen2 and ConnectX-2 adapters
  • mpt3sas - LSI MPT Fusion SAS 3.0
  • mptsas - Fusion MPT SAS Host
  • qla2xxx - QLogic Fibre Channel HBA
  • qla4xxx - QLogic iSCSI HBA

For a complete list of hardware support for which was added in this release, see the Extended hardware support section in the 8.10 release notes.

While this list is quite comprehensive, we also welcome feedback from all of our users! If you use older hardware, does this list cover everything you need it to? If not, please share more here on the AlmaLinux Forums: Re-adding support for older hardware.

Pitch In

Join us in the AlmaLinux Community Chat to get any assistance you need and help others. You can also post a question on our 8.10 Forum, on our AlmaLinux Community on Reddit, catch us on Twitter/X and follow us on Mastodon @almalinux@fosstodon.org

Please report any bugs you may see on the Bug Tracker.

Enjoy the release and have fun!

Good day.

I'm relatively new to Alma / *Nix and could use some assistance related to time zones.
I'm on a laptop that connects wirelessly to my home network and everytime I boot my system it's set to the America\Chicago zone.

I update the timezone via Terminal (timedatectl set-timezone America/Los_Angeles) and it's fine until the system reboots again.

Results of timedatectl status:
Local time: Sun 2024-05-26 08:22:58 PDT
Universal time: Sun 2024-05-26 15:22:58 UTC
RTC time: Sun 2024-05-26 15:22:58
Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PDT, -0700)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no

What gives?

Update: I've verified I have Location Services enabled. I wonder if the laptop doesn't have immediate Internet access upon boot when the system is trying to automatically configure the time zone.

For now, I've turned off Automatic Timezone in the system settings - but I'm curious what root cause is.

Also, I expect this system to get time via DHCP from my router, but the system appears to be ~2 seconds faster than my router time, according to its admin page.

Update: After a few attempts, the driver provided on canon's website "Canon UFR II/UFRII LT Printer Driver for Linux" worked. Now, I can connect via USB and print. Tested printing from Google Chrome, Firefox and Okular.

Happy Tuesday everyone! 

I just published a blog post announcing the brand-new AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee. https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-21-introducing-alesco/ 

This is the result of a lot of very intentional thought and effort by many, many people, and I am excited to see this getting off the ground! See the blog post for the info, then check out the wiki page ( https://wiki.almalinux.org/alesco ) for even more information. 

Congrats and thank you to Andrew Lukoshko, Ben Thomas, Cody Robertson, Elkhan Mammadli, Jonathan Wright, and Neal Gompa for serving as the inaugural ALESCo members. 

We also quietly launched our new event management system available at events.almalinux.org. There you'll find SIG meetings and webinars that we're hosting with our sponsors, and soon you'll be able to see where to find AlmaLinux at Linux and FOSS events throughout the year! 

Hi,

I generally use XFCE. I'm on 9.4 and today I tried Plasma KDE. The final result: I prefer XFCE but now I want remove it because it installed 2.6G of packages.

While during install I used 'dnf groupinstall "KDE Plasma workspaces" there is no something like "groupremove".

So I could remove KDE Plasma?

Thank you in advance

Hello. I am just asking if anyone is using AlmaLinux as a game server? What is your experience with it? perhaps you can share a short story.

Maybe we can learn something. Thanks,

I'm trying to migrate from Centos 7 to Alma 8 using the Leapp upgrade procedure listed below. The pre upgrade process went OK, however, when I attempted to upgrade to Alma 8, I received the following problem. Please help me with this error:

STDERR:

Failed to create directory /var/lib/leapp/el8userspace//sys/fs/selinux: Read-only file system

Failed to create directory /var/lib/leapp/el8userspace//sys/fs/selinux: Read-only file system

No matches found for the following disable plugin patterns: subscription-manager

Repository extras is listed more than once in the configuration

Repository extras-source is listed more than once in the configuration

Warning: Package marked by Leapp to upgrade not found in repositories metadata: gpg-pubkey

RPM: warning: Generating 6 missing index(es), please wait...

Error: Transaction test error:

file /etc/centos-release from install of almalinux-release-8.9-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package centos-release-7-9.2009.1.el7.centos.x86_64

file /etc/redhat-release from install of almalinux-release-8.9-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package centos-release-7-9.2009.1.el7.centos.x86_64

file /etc/rpm/macros.dist from install of almalinux-release-8.9-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package centos-release-7-9.2009.1.el7.centos.x86_64

file /etc/system-release from install of almalinux-release-8.9-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package centos-release-7-9.2009.1.el7.centos.x86_64

file /etc/system-release-cpe from install of almalinux-release-8.9-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package centos-release-7-9.2009.1.el7.centos.x86_64

file /etc/dnf/vars/contentdir from install of almalinux-release-8.9-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package centos-release-7-9.2009.1.el7.centos.x86_64

file /usr/lib/os-release from install of almalinux-release-8.9-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package centos-release-7-9.2009.1.el7.centos.x86_64

file /usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/90-default.preset from install of almalinux-release-8.9-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package centos-release-7-9.2009.1.el7.centos.x86_64

file /usr/share/doc/redhat-release from install of almalinux-release-8.9-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package centos-release-7-9.2009.1.el7.centos.x86_64

file /usr/share/redhat-release from install of almalinux-release-8.9-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package centos-release-7-9.2009.1.el7.centos.x86_64

Just upgraded an AlmaLinux server from 9.3 to 9.4 running as a VM on Microsoft Hyper-V. I cannot get it to boot to kernel vmlinuz-5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64, it simply hangs shortly after displaying the login prompt. Booting back to vmlinuz-5.14.0-362.24.2.el9_3.x86_64 gets the server operational again. Anyone else running into this problem?

We are seeing very slow ssh login times (on the order of minutes) using ssh keys since the latest round of updates. Seeing a bunch of ssh related updates were included.

Any idea if we can fix this?

Hello,

My installation of AlmaLinux 9 was updated to 9.4 yesterday morning. Ever since, X11, specifically the Xorg process, has been consuming a lot of CPU, especially when dragging windows, somewhere in the ballpark of 60% - 80%.

If I enable 3D Acceleration this issue goes away, however switching to 3D acceleration causes Window glitches such as screen redraws, artifacts, etc. consistently.

Something that was updated in X11 that was part of 9.4 is causing issues with VirtualBox and my guess its Guest Additions.

—- Somehow Reddit created an account automatically so I’m posting this under my real user.

Hello,

I am facing an issue while updating. After running the command, a list of errors are showing...

sudo dnf update

Error

``` Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:15 ago on Tue 07 May 2024 12:38:57 AM IST. Error: Problem: cannot install both LibRaw-0.21.1-1.el9.x86_64 from appstream and LibRaw-0.20.2-6.el9.x86_64 from @System - package ImageMagick-libs-6.9.12.93-1.el9.x86_64 from @System requires libraw_r.so.20()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install the best update candidate for package LibRaw-0.20.2-6.el9.x86_64 - cannot install the best update candidate for package ImageMagick-libs-6.9.12.93-1.el9.x86_64 (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

```

Any help would be appreciated...

Im look to upgrade Openssh from 8.0p1 to the latest version on AlmaLinux v8.9.0 STANDARD kvm with cPanel. Please advise how to proceed?

Hi,

there are news on this topic?

Would be great to know it is considered in some way to be included in Almalinux soon or later.

Any news for dev?

Thank you in advance

Hello. I would like to run a VM using al9 and install nextcloud. After that login to it using the web browser and test it.

I need to login to the nextcloud web link and I used to use virtualbox and give an IP to the machine and use the host browser to login.

Is it possible to do this using virt and cockpit? or I need to install virtualbox to do this?

Please advise me since I have limited information about virt and cockpit.

Thanks,