{"id":823,"date":"2024-06-12T00:07:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/almalinux-os-extends-support-to-the-newly-released-raspberry-pi-5\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T06:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T06:10:18","slug":"almalinux-os-extends-support-to-the-newly-released-raspberry-pi-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/almalinux-os-extends-support-to-the-newly-released-raspberry-pi-5\/","title":{"rendered":"AlmaLinux OS Extends Support to the Newly Released Raspberry Pi 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>AlmaLinux developer Koichiro Iwao shared some exciting news today for those who want to run the free Red Hat Enterprise Linux alternative on a Raspberry Pi computer as the latest Raspberry Pi 5 model is officially supported.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It has been a long-awaited development and challenging for the developers, but <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/raspberry-pi-5-official-m-2-hat-now-available-for-nvme-drives-and-ai-accelerators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi 5<\/a><\/strong> support is now available for both <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/almalinux-os-9-4-seafoam-ocelot-officially-released-based-on-rhel-9-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AlmaLinux OS 9.4<\/strong><\/a> and AlmaLinux OS 8.10 releases, featuring the GNOME desktop environment as the default graphical interface.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Koichiro Iwao discusses the difficulties he encountered while updating the Raspberry Pi images of AlmaLinux OS to support the latest Raspberry Pi 5 board, noting that he had to understand the Raspberry Pi boot process to construct a kernel for AlmaLinux OS based on the official <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/its-official-linux-kernel-6-6-will-be-lts-supported-until-december-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linux 6.6 LTS<\/a><\/strong> kernel used in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/raspberry-pi-os-is-now-powered-by-linux-6-6-lts-improves-raspberry-pi-5-support\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi OS<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAlthough I had previously contributed to AlmaLinux Raspberry Pi images, I didn\u2019t know much about the boot process. It took considerable time and effort to successfully build a kernel on my ARM environment, overcoming failed builds and boot issues along the way,\u201d said Koichiro Iwao in a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/almalinux.org\/blog\/2024-06-11-almalinux-support-for-raspberry-pi-5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a><\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><p>Another challenge Koichiro Iwao faced when adding Raspberry Pi 5 support was understanding the differences between the previous <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/qemu-9-0-released-with-raspberry-pi-4-support-loongarch-kvm-acceleration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Raspberry Pi 4<\/a><\/strong> model and the Raspberry Pi 5. In the end, he successfully rebased the kernel to boot the RHEL-based operating system on the Raspberry Pi 5.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to take AlmaLinux OS for a test drive on your Raspberry Pi 5 computer, either just by using the beautiful GNOME desktop for your daily tasks or deploying a powerful Linux server, you can download the images right now from the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/almalinux.org\/get-almalinux\/#Raspberry_Pi-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official website<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Raspberry Pi images are also supported on Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, Raspberry Pi 400, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, and Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ boards. 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