AlmaLinux as one of the leading, modern and community-minded alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues enjoying very nice growth. In their 2025 Year In Review they provided a look at their growth with now having more than two million systems per week checking in for software updates.
AlmaLinux published their 2025 Year In Review where they recapped their AlmaLinux OS 10.0 / 10.1 and other software releases, adding x86-64-v2 support to AlmaLinux 10, native NVIDIA driver support introduced, Btrfs support in AlmaLinux 10.1, and a range of other technical achievements over the past year.
They also provided a look at their continued growth in showing the number of AlmaLinux systems seeing weekly update check-ins. With it always being difficult to measure the size of the user base for open-source projects, counting the number of unique weekly check-ins for package updates is one of the most robust ways of measuring the size of Linux distributions. Granted, not everyone keeps their systems online for updates and some larger organizations may maintain their own package repository mirrors on their own infrastructure, etc.
In any event, AlmaLinux continues showing very nice growth since 2022 after the project was started in 2021. AlmaLinux is seeing more than two million weekly check-ins and that’s roughly double of where it was at the start of 2025.
Those wishing to learn more about AlmaLinux’s successes over the past year can see their 2025 Year In Review on AlmaLinux.org.
