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AlmaLinux Pros review quotes

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system administration | DevOps | Softrware Developer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Jan 19, 2026
The most valuable feature I find in AlmaLinux is the binary compatibility with RHEL and the long-term stability, which makes it a predictable, rock-solid system behavior, while also having small and safe packaging for subsystems or systems that run twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Jan 19, 2026
The long-term support provided by AlmaLinux helps my business by ensuring that we do not have to renew our servers every four to five years.
reviewer2797920 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 19, 2026
Positively, I can say that AlmaLinux has brought a sense of stability, and besides the security patches, we also noticed better virtualization for our use cases.
 

AlmaLinux Cons review quotes

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system administration | DevOps | Softrware Developer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Jan 19, 2026
If AlmaLinux could provide ten to twenty years of fixes, that would be an improvement because I do not want to update the system all the time, as it becomes more challenging for me as a system administrator to track all the patches and everything I should patch on the system.
Jan 19, 2026
One area for improvement with AlmaLinux is the use of SELinux to secure and harden my server, which I find to be a complicated beast.
reviewer2797920 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 19, 2026
After six months of migration, we ended up using more resources for the same websites, and that's not acceptable.