AlmaLinux is an initiative by the company CloudLinux, which already has a distribution for hosting providers in its program, including CloudLinux OS. In terms of features and commands, there is no difference between AlmaLinux and its counterpart such as CentOS and others that are based on RHEL. Here you will find all the tutorials, steps to install various software, and other simple commands to use on it
After the RedHat announcement of closing Long term supported version of CentOS, CloudLinux came forward to provide LTS versions of CentOS in the form of AlmaLinux. It is a completely free 1: 1 binary compatible fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
Initially, this CentOS alternative developed under a Project called Lenix, that later renamed and now called AlmaLinux.
CentOS was started in 2004 as a community project for an RHEL-compatible Linux distribution. Red Hat provides the RHEL source packages free of charge under the GPL. In 2014, CentOS and Red Hat merged. Since then, every new RHEL version has been followed by a CentOS version without trademarked content and certified security policies from Red Hat.
In addition to Project Lenix alias AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux also succeeds CentOS. Rocky Linux comes from Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of the CentOS project.
The team of this distro provides the necessary infrastructure so that the community can take over. The source code of the project is published publicly on Github. A wiki is supposed to help build the documentation. Errors can be reported in the AlmaLinux Bug Tracker.
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Let’s learn the steps and commands to install LXD/LXC on AlmaLinux or Rocky to start creating containers using the LXC command line or Graphical user interface. LXD, the “Linux Container Daemon”, is a management tool for Linux operating system containers built using LXC. LXC is …
Do you want to run Windows applications on AlmaLinux or Rocky 8? Then install Wine HQ to use graphical Microsoft Windows applications on Linux. Wine ( W ine I s N ot to E mulator) is a program that can be used to run Windows …
Let’s quickly set up the LAMP server by installing and setting up the XAMPP application on AlmaLinux or Rocky GUI desktop. What is XAMPP? XAMPP is a compilation of various tools and programs that you need if you want to set up a local test …
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AlmaLinux or Rocky’s official repository doesn’t offer all packages we need to install various common software. Hence, to get the packages and dependencies to set up various third-party applications there is a repository called EPEL- Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux that offers additional packages to …
To install some third-party applications or packages, we add their repository on our Linux operating system. However, in case any of them is interfering or we don’t want to update some particular package available in some particular repository then we can disable the same but …
PostgreSQL is a popular worldwide used open-source database. It is available for Linux including other common operating systems such as macOS, Windows 10/7, and BSD. Here we will install and configure the latest PostgreSQL version on AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux 8. PostgreSQL implements the 2008 …
Here we learn the commands to download and install the popular Teamviewer applications on AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux 8 using the terminal. What is TeamViewer? TeamViewer is remote assistance software that enables desktops’ screens to be shared between two computers. If you need technical assistance …