RHEL 9.5 debuts alongside AlmaLinux, Rocky, and Oracle updates

The latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is here, as are the leading RHELatives. Also, interestingly, Red Hat is working with Microsoft to make it available on top of Windows.

Red Hat released version 9.5 of its flagship Linux distribution. The release notes contain details of all the changes, but be warned. In PDF format, they are 219 pages long.

It was followed five days later by AlmaLinux 9.5 "Teal Serval," whose release notes are significantly more digestible. As with previous releases, perhaps the most interesting aspect of AlmaLinux compared to its rivals is that it retains support for a a wide range of hardware that's been dropped from the upstream distro. In this release, the "Extended Hardware Support" table contains 140 rows.

The following day, Rocky Linux 9.5 followed, with the shortest set of release notes of the trio. Also on November 19, Rocky ...