Two years ago RHEL-derived [1]AlmaLinux announced a hardware certification program as part of their Certification Special Interest Group (SIG). They have now expanded their hardware certification program to include third-party software certification on AlmaLinux too plus a new app that users can install for self-certifying their system.

AlmaLinux has rolled out their new, rewritten app that can be installed via sudo dnf install alma-certify for running their certification tests on your system. The certification program aims to finish in under ten minutes.

On the opposite side, for those wanting to know about hardware/software known to work with AlmaLinux, they have rolled out the new certification portal at [2]catalog.almalinux.org .

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This catalog reports hardware that's been reported as validated to work plus a few synthetic benchmarks. There is also distinguishing of AlmaLinux-validated hardware versus community and vendor validated hardware.

Those curious about the new AlmaLinux certification efforts can learn more via today's blog post on [4]AlmaLinux.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Hardware-Certificate

[2] https://catalog.almalinux.org/

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=almalinux_catalog_lrg

[4] https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-09-24-certification-in-minutes/