Another addition to the OS-tan family, this time an enterprise-driven project. I only now learned that the Japanese IT company Cybertrust helped AlmaLinux launch an operating system anthropomorphism mascot named Alma-chan (あるまちゃん), with images licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Coincidentally, Japan recently has a new robot anime called アルマちゃんはかぞくになりたい. Do not confuse it with this one, haha, although forming a family with a robot little sister would also be nice.
According to the setting provided by the official website サイバートラスト AlmaLinux 広報キャラクター「あるまちゃん」: she came from the planet Alma by UFO in order to search for her younger sister from a previous life, but because of a system failure, she cannot return home. She is trying to use the highly reliable AlmaLinux system to repair the UFO. Miracle-chan (みらくるちゃん) is her younger sister from a previous life!
The Miracle-chan mentioned here refers to Miracle Linux, an RHEL-derived distribution maintained by Japan’s Cybertrust with a 22-year history.
Then what is Rocky Linux? The villainess role? No… the final BOSS should be the evil RHEL, while CentOS is the already distant utopia.
Based on Alma-chan’s setting, Cybertrust officially launched the manga あるまちゃんの冒険. These updates can be followed on the Twitter account みらくるちゃん & あるまちゃん【MIRACLE LINUX ＆ AlmaLinux】.
The official website みらくるちゃん&カーネルくん provides beautiful wallpapers and cute manga. This penguin named “Kernel-kun” is the common language of all Linux distributions~
Some free software concepts are mentioned here, including Open Source Program Office. Companies establish dedicated offices to promote free software, which can be said to be a common standard practice around the world. It is clear they are quite good at promoting free software!
