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AlmaLinux 10.1 To Offer Expanded Software Selection With New Repository Default

([Operating Systems] 4 Hours Ago AlmaLinux 10)


The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) downstream AlmaLinux 10 is further distinguishing itself from alternatives by enabling its CRB repository by default. This will be rolling out as an update to AlmaLinux 10.0 and as part of the upcoming AlmaLinux 10.1 point release.

The AlmaLinux CRB repository offers up various extra packages primarily of developer interests. The CRB repository is short for "CodeReady Builder" used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The CRB repository is also known as the "PowerTools" repository. AlmaLinux 10 is enabling the CRB repository by default to make it easier for new AlmaLinux users/administrators and also jiving better with the Fedora EPEL repository.

CRB repository support has already been available to AlmaLinux 10 users but not enabled by default. AlmaLinux characterizes this repository as:

"The CRB repository is an extra collection of packages that have not been historically made available by default for enterprise Linux distributions. A lot of the packages are primarily useful for developing software, but CRB also includes requirements for a number of popular packages (such as the KDE Plasma Desktop) that are not needed for the core enterprise Linux solution set."

More details on this default repository enabling for AlmaLinux 10 via [1]AlmaLinux.org .



[1] https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-09-08-enabling-crb-by-default-for-almalinux10/


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Linux Dominates Academic Research

A recent survey of colleges and high school reveals that Linux, Open Source
Software, and Microsoft are favorite topics for research projects. Internet
Censorship, a popular topic for the past two years, was supplanted by Biology
of Penguins as another of this year's most popular subjects for research
papers.

"The Internet has changed all the rules," one college professor told
Humorix. "Nobody wants to write papers about traditional topics like the
death penalty, freedom of speech, abortion, juvenile crime, etc. Most of the
research papers I've seen the past year have been computer related, and most
of the reference material has come from the Net. This isn't necessarily
good; there's a lot of crap on the Net. One student tried to use 'Bob's
Totally Wicked Anti-Microsoft Homepage of Doom' and 'The Support Group for
People Used by Microsoft' as primary sources of information for his paper
about Microsoft."

A high school English teacher added, "Plagarism is a problem with the Net.
One of my students 'wrote' a brilliant piece about the free software
revolution. Upon further inspection, however, almost everything was stolen
from Eric S. Raymond's website. I asked the student, "What does noosphere
mean?" He responded, 'New-what?' Needless to say, he failed the class."