AlmaLinux 9.4 Stable Now Available Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.4 codenamed “Seafoam Ocelot”! 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 Matching release and software versions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL), AlmaLinux builds from the same sources as RHEL, promises complete compatibility with RHEL, and does so from freely available open source code.
  • gomp
    4·
    6 months ago

    Most newbies would have a hard time and most experienced people would grab the “unofficial” non-free image for installing just in case and then disable non-free if it wasn’t needed.

    I’ve not verified this, but does the installer actually install the non-free firmware if it’s not needed?

    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      6 months ago

      New users found it hard to download the right installer if they needed non-free firmware. Experienced users know they can add firmware=never in the installer to disable firmware lookup if they want. If they want to decide on a firmware by firmware basis, that’s an option too. If the hardware doesn’t need non-free firmware it’s not installed.