On Tuesday, AlmaLinux announced that it has obtained FIPS 140-3 security certification for its Linux distro which is primarily used in data centers by enterprises. On Tuesday the eponymous foundation behind the Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distribution AlmaLinux, announced that the distro’s latest and greatest, AlmaLinux 9.2, now has FIPS 140-3 certification, which means that it has passed the Federal Information Processing Standard’s latest benchmark for validating the effectiveness of cryptographic hardware.

Source: FOSS Force