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.
Not having an opt-out toggle should definitely be a cause of concern. Not everyone is running Debian just for the FOSS-only firmware, but there’s definitely a sizeable number of people doing so. Letting the user choose whether they want to install proprietary firmware or not is absolutely an important choice.
This is assuming there really isn’t an opt-out somewhere in the install menu.
Edit: it may be that I am running something without FOSS drivers for it. I happened to forget about it. So what? I’d rather it not run (unless it’s critical), and I definitely want to be prompted that a proprietary driver is recommended to run the specific device because no FOSS driver is available. Not doing so is taking away my choice in the matter, and if Debian is really doing that, then I will personally have to rethink my options, including my donations