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AlmaLinux has announced that
the distribution will no longer be a strict clone of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, but will maintain ABI compatibility.

For a typical user, this will mean very little change in your use
of AlmaLinux. Red Hat-compatible applications will still be able to
run on AlmaLinux OS, and your installs of AlmaLinux will continue
to receive timely security updates. The most remarkable potential
impact of the change is that we will no longer be held to the line
of “bug-for-bug compatibility” with Red Hat, and that means that we
can now accept bug fixes outside of Red Hat’s release cycle. While
that means some AlmaLinux OS users may encounter bugs that are not
in Red Hat, we may also accept patches for bugs that have not yet
been accepted upstream, or shipped downstream.