The server-centric, open-source Linux distribution’s latest beta is available with plenty of updates, and it could be your new favorite desktop operating system. Here’s why.
Written by Jack Wallen, Contributing Writer
During my decades with the Linux operating system, I’ve often wondered why server distributions are so rarely considered for the desktop.
Okay, okay… I can already hear the naysayers out there. It’s designed to be a server operating system, so it should only be used as such. I get that. But let’s look at it from a different perspective. Security.
But before I get into this premise, let’s talk about AlmaLinux as it was intended to be used: as a server.
The latest release (9.4 beta) doesn’t really change much (this is, after all, a point release and not a major release). To that end, the changes mostly come by way of package updates, such as Python 3.1, Ruby 3.3, PHP 8.2, NGINX 1.24, MariaDB 10.11, PostgreSQL 16, Git 2.43.0, LFS 3.4.1, and more.
