AlmaLinux

An Open Source, free, community-owned, RHEL-compatible #Linux OS. Focused on stability. Desktop, SBC’s, hyperscale, cloud - use it where you need it!

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

✅ Step one: pick your use case.
✅ Step two: check out our new quickstart and find your lane.
✅ Step three: sudo make yourself at home.

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

The fix for CVE-2026-98276 is now included in the regular kernel updates for AlmaLinux 8, 9, and 10 in the production repositories.

Update and reboot now!

Thank you to everyone who helped with testing 🙌 https://t.co/5x3xQDMFt7

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

@pixel_echo It was newly patched for us, as is indicated by the blog post’s date.

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

⚠️ A new Linux kernel vulnerability (CVE-2026-98276) is a race condition in the socket code that can lead to a use-after-free of a UDP socket.

AlmaLinux 8, 9, and 10 are affected.

Patched kernels are available in the testing repository!
https://t.co/5x3xQDMFt7

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

Media & Entertainment is niche, demanding, and great at finding the weird library failures nobody else has noticed yet.

Tristan Théroux and Stephen Winters discuss how the M&E SIG turns those edge cases into stability for every industry on AlmaLinux.

🔗 https://t.co/B2iVVgDJPo

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

There's only one week left to make your voice heard and help shape what AlmaLinux does next!

Your answers go to the board in December, and we’ll publish what we heard and what we plan to do about it. 🔗 https://t.co/axKBWg1rmI

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

HCP Vagrant is retiring, so we now host the almalinux/* boxes ourselves: every version since 2021, plus new releases from our build pipeline.

Check your Vagrantfiles and CI before Dec 31. https://t.co/4j2HdBTxz0

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

@_adriend_ If you post a guide for that, let us know! We’d be happy to share.

[socallinuxexpo @socallinuxexpo]

SCaLE has a new website! Get to know the people behind the code who created this improved experience.Then, join us April 1-4 in Pasadena! Sponsorships are available and ticket sales are open.

Get to know the people behind the code!
🔗 https://t.co/KAIxG0jHOX

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

Behind every GitHub handle is a person with real emotions and limits.

@bennyvasquez speaks to why helpful, human, honest communities stick around, and why saying yes more than no keeps contributors coming back. https://t.co/eaQ4tYwOoL

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

@pixel_echo About what?

[benny Vasquez @bennyvasquez]

This just made my chill Sunday even better. The @almalinux team will you in a couple months @fosdem!! <3 #fosdem #linux

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

It's almost time for #SC26! 👏 We'll be at Booth 1704 with answers on stable, RHEL-compatible Linux for HPC, and the people who build it.

Stop by and talk shop. https://t.co/RIWq0Th8W9 @Supercomputing

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

Open source shares code, research, and fixes.

IBM’s report says that interconnectedness works for security too: a fix built once for a common dependency can spare every downstream user from repeating the work. ➡️ https://t.co/zqSVwButaT via @CyberSecDive

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

Our website needs native speakers—German, Japanese, Italian, and Arabic are all under 50% translated!

Sign in to Weblate, pick your language, translate in your browser. No Git, no code. 👇 https://t.co/XzGZI33C1l

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

PwnEscape fixes are in production for AlmaLinux 8, 9, and 10.

Thanks to everyone who tested, and to ALESCo for shipping ahead of upstream! https://t.co/9ZdgA8moyB

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

Six membership tiers, two of them free, and every one comes with a vote in where AlmaLinux goes next.

Which one fits you best? 👀 https://t.co/oliHZ9i7Q5

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

Our goal for AlmaLinux: be the boring choice.

@bennyvasquez and @ucl's Dr. @owainkenway talk about why the OS should be reliable, secure, and get out of the way, so the science on top can be the exciting part. ▶️ https://t.co/De24FD4jig

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

You adopted a Code of Conduct. Now what? 🤔

@bennyvasquez has five years of AlmaLinux OS Foundation answers at @SFScon: “Your Code of Conduct is Killing Your Community (And What to Build Instead)." #SFSCon

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

The recent nginx security update for CVE-2026-42533 introduced a regression.

On some configurations, nginx randomly answers a small share of requests with HTTP 500 and logs:
[alert] ... no buffer space in script copy.

Help us test the new packages!
https://t.co/JslemxYCsm

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

🎬 Why does media & entertainment have its own AlmaLinux SIG? Tristan Théroux tells @Cinesite's Stephen Winters: demanding workloads, edge-case hardware and niche software that needs serious stability.