Alma Linux 9 GNOME
Review exact release details and current availability for Alma Linux 9 GNOME.
About Alma Linux
AlmaLinux is a free, community-governed enterprise distribution created when CentOS changed course, and it is stewarded by a nonprofit foundation with corporate and individual members. Its purpose is continuity: each release maintains application-level compatibility with the matching Red Hat Enterprise Linux version, so software built for RHEL is expected to run unmodified, and each major release carries the long support horizon enterprise deployments assume. Packages are RPMs managed with DNF, security advisories are published methodically, and images exist for servers, containers, clouds, and multiple architectures. AlmaLinux has also shown independence, at times shipping fixes ahead of upstream and retaining hardware support its parent dropped. Typical users are businesses, universities, and administrators running production services without license costs. It is a server system first, so an OpenFactory browser VM is mainly a way to explore the administration environment before adopting it in infrastructure.
All Alma Linux releases and desktopsWhat happens when you press Try now
The button opens the OpenFactory console in a new tab and boots a fresh Alma Linux virtual machine from OpenFactory's verified source media. The session renders directly in the browser, so there is nothing to download and nothing to install on your computer.
Each visit gets its own machine with a fresh overlay over an immutable base image. Files, settings, and desktop changes behave normally inside the session and are discarded when it ends, so every visitor starts from the same clean Alma Linux 9 GNOME.
How GNOME behaves in a browser VM
GNOME organizes work around the Activities overview: one keyboard-friendly surface for launching apps, switching windows, and searching. Current releases ship a curated GTK application set and a Wayland session by default.
Questions about this target
Is this an official Alma Linux image?
Yes. Launches boot from OpenFactory's verified copy of official Alma Linux media with the GNOME desktop. The catalog records where each source came from and when it was verified, and visitor sessions never modify the stored image.
Do changes persist between sessions?
No. Every launch runs on a fresh overlay over an immutable base image, and the machine state is discarded when the session ends. No visitor sees another visitor's changes, and every session starts from the same clean Alma Linux 9 GNOME.
Can I get a customized Alma Linux instead of the stock demo?
Yes. The OpenFactory builder turns this release into your own image: pick packages, services, users, and hardening, then build it, test it in a browser VM, and download the result for real hardware.