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AlmaLinux 10.0 Stable Released - Unlike RHEL 10, It Continues Supporting x86-64-v2 CPUs
Building off the recent release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, AlmaLinux 10.0 stable is now available as this RHEL-derived popular community Linux OS alternative.
While upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 raised their x86_64 baseline to the x86-64-v3 micro-architecture feature level, AlmaLinux 10 has decided to continue offering x86-64-v2 support. With continuing to retain x86-64-v2 support, Intel Nehalem / Silvermont and AMD Bulldozer / Jaguar era processors continue to be supported with AlmaLinux 10 where as x86-64-v3 with RHEL 10.0 mandates AVX and other newer CPU ISA features. AlmaLinux 10 is fully compatible with RHEL 10 while some other changes with this AlmaLinux update include UEFI Secure Boot on ARM platforms, SPICE support is present that has been deprecated in RHEL since v9.0, and there is tech preview support for KVM virtualization on IBM POWER.
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