Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. CloudLinux Releases AlmaLinux Beta PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 1, 2021-- AlmaLinux, the open source enterprise-level Linux distribution created as an alternative to CentOS, is released in beta with most RHEL packages and is ready for community testing. A stable release is planned for the end of the Q1 2021. ADVERTISEMENT AlmaLinux is a 1:1 binary fork of RedHat Linux Enterprise Linux (RHEL), backed with a $1 million annual sponsorship by CloudLinux, with support provided until at least 2029. The new distro is based on a community-driven approach to fill the gap left by the CentOS stable release’s demise.