About four months ago, when Red Hat announced that it?ll put an end to the CentOS Linux 8 operating system series at the end of 2021, focusing on CentOS Stream 8, several developers started working on CentOS Linux replacements. One of these is AlmaLinux OS, developed by the creators of CloudLinux OS, a popular Linux distribution based on CentOS Linux and marketed to shared hosting providers. AlmaLinux OS to be a 1:1 binary compatible drop-in replacement for CentOS Linux as a forever-free, open-source and enterprise-grade Linux distro with a very long support timeframe.