AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux are two free and open-source operating systems based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. Both are designed to be community-driven, transparent, and stable, but there are some key differences between the two. Rocky Linux Rocky Linux is a free and open-source operating system based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. It was created as...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install GlassFish on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, GlassFish is a free, open-source server for deploying JAVA based applications. It also provides both web and CLI-based administration consoles for easier configuration and management of your Java applications and their respective components. This article assumes you have at least basi...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WineHQ on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a program that can be used to run Windows software on Linux. If you want to use graphical Microsoft Windows applications on your AlmaLinux system, you can install Wine. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Java on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Java is a cross-platform, object-oriented, and multipurpose programming language that is primarily used for creating mobile, web, and cloud applications. Java was developed by Sun Microsystems (which is now the subsidiary of Oracle) in the year 1995. This article assumes you have at least ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Tor Browser on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Tor a.k.a The Onion Router, is open-source, free software that permits anonymous communication using online services like web surfing. Tor routes Internet traffic through a free, global, volunteer overlay network made up of more than 5,000 relays. However, users should be aware of bo...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Sublime Text on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Sublime Text Editor is a cross-platform, lightweight text editor for code, markup, and prose that automates repetitive tasks so you can focus on the important stuff. Users can expand its functionality with plugins, typically community-built and maintained under free-software license...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PostgreSQL on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, PostgreSQL is an open-source, relational database system that uses SQL to store and scale complicated workloads. This database system dates back to 1986, introduced as part of the Postgres project at the University of California at Berkeley. Ever since, there has been 30 years of acti...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Redis on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Redis is a popular in-memory key-value store that can be used as a NoSQL key-value database, message broker as well as a caching solution. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes with radius...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install AngularJS on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, AngularJS is a JavaScript-based open-source front-end web application framework that assists with running single-page applications. It was developed in 2009 by Google to help developers design complex applications from scratch without having expert knowledge of coding languages like C#...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Terraform on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. Terraform is built by Hashicorp and released under Mozilla Public License. It supports public, private as well as hybrid clouds, as ...