AlmaLinux Official Raspberry Pi Image

Last Update 2023-06-16: Changelog below.

This repository is the home of the Official AlmaLinux Raspberry Pi Image.

Images made possible by the incredible work contributed by the immortal Pablo Greco, Mark Verlinde, Fabian Arrotin and Koichiro Iwao

AlmaLinux Raspberry Pi Quick Start

This has been tested on Raspberry Pi 3 and 4.

Please file any bugs on https://bugs.almalinux.org and feel free to discuss on our Community Chat, the Forums or Reddit.

Step 1: Grab the image, verify the CHECKSUM and burn it to an SD card using Fedora Media Writer , Balena Etcher, RPi Image, dd or whatever tool you choose.

Step 2: Insert your SD Card into your Raspberry PI and boot!

Step 3: Login. The user is almalinux password is almalinux.

Step 4: Resize your root filesystem by running sudo rootfs-expand. (Thanks Fabian!)

AlmaLinux Raspberry Pi Guide

Full guide for AlmaLinux on Raspberry Pi is available here: https://wiki.almalinux.org/documentation/raspberry-pi

Changelog

2023-06-16

• Update for AlmaLinux 8.8 and 9.2
• Added support for cloud-init
• Added linux-firmware-raspberrypi package to support Raspberry Pi 400 Wi-Fi

2021-11-12

• Updated to AlmaLinux 8.5
• Updated Kernel to version 5.10.78

2021-10-05

• Relocated images, added kernels and release packages to RPi-specific repository
• Updated Kernel to version 5.10.60
• Fixed Wi-Fi via an updated linux-firmware package to include Matthias Brugger's mbrugger@suse.com fix for Raspberry Pi
• Include Fabian Arrotin's arrfab@centos.org rootfs-expand
• Reduced swap size to 100MB to match Raspberry Pi OS