AlmaLinux 9 with GNOME Desktop

Overview

AlmaLinux 9 with GNOME Desktop is AlmaLinux 9, the community owned enterprise Linux that is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, with the distribution's own desktop added: the AppStream environment group that AlmaLinux calls Server with GUI. Remote access uses TigerVNC from the same AppStream repository, the first party way to run headless GNOME desktops on this release, so each user gets their own full GNOME session on the virtual machine, reached with any VNC viewer through an SSH tunnel, with Files, Terminal, Firefox, Text Editor, System Monitor and Software ready to use.

It suits cloud workstations for enterprise Linux development, graphical administration and data tools that should run close to your cloud resources, training labs that need a RHEL 9 compatible desktop for each user, and a secure jump desktop that exposes nothing but SSH. AlmaLinux 9 is in active support to May 2027 and receives security maintenance to May 2032, and anything else you need installs with dnf.

Common uses

• Cloud workstations with a full GNOME desktop on an enterprise Linux binary compatible with RHEL 9
• Graphical administration, engineering and data tools running close to your cloud resources
• Per user training desktops and secure jump desktops reached only through an SSH tunnel

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.