AlmaLinux Official Raspberry Pi Image

Last Update 2024-06-24: 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.

Tested hardware:

• Raspberry Pi 5
• Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
• Raspberry Pi 400
• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
• Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+

AlmaLinux Raspberry Pi Quick Start

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, Raspberry Pi Imager, dd or whatever tool you choose.

Step 2: Edit user-data file if you want to configure early initialization.

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

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

AlmaLinux Raspberry Pi Guide

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

Changelog

2024-06-24

• Enable ondemand CPU frequency scaling #48
• V3D graphic driver is now working on AL9 #32

2024-06-14

• Enable serial console #47
• Install utilities for GPIO by default (AL9)

2024-06-05

• Update for AlmaLinux 8.10 and 9.4
• Support Raspberry Pi 5

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