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This week the project released 8.4 stable for ARM64, assisted by Arm and tested by AWS on its ARM-based Graviton VM instances (Rocky also has an ARM build available).

Shadow over Fedora 34 as maintainer of Java packages quits with some choice words for Red Hat and EclipseĪlmaLinux has also been well received with mostly positive reviews from early adopters.

RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, fancy that: Rocky Linux would-be CentOS replacement hits RC1 milestone.

openSUSE leaps to 15.3 – now built with 'same binary packages' as SUSE Enterprise.

Systemd 249 release candidate includes better support for immutable OSes and provisioning images.

AlmaLinux is also available on GCE but as a "community supported image" which means it is "not directly supported by Compute Engine." Microsoft has "signed on as a partner of RESF" and will ensure Rocky Linux availability on Azure. Another indication of support is that Google has made a customised Rocky Linux for installation on Google Compute Engine (GCE), and is now a "Principal Sponsor" of RESF. It reported that "within 72 hours of launch, Rocky's assets have been downloaded nearly 70,000 times from our Tier0 mirror, served from Fastly – not counting the number of downloads from our mirrors, of which we have nearly 100 – and we count approximately 10,000 downloads of our torrent file." We note, though, that because of the mirrors it is not possible to get an accurate total count.

Besides quickly building up an army of hundreds of contributors for the project, Rocky Linux 8.4 – which follows the May 18 release of Red Hat's RHEL 8.4 – was downloaded at least 10,000 times within half a day of its release.Despite appearing a little later, the Rocky Linux project has momentum. It turns out that Kurtzer's decision has been a popular one.

Kurtzer's answer, as many searched for alternative Linux distributions, was to create Rocky Linux to support big enterprises running CentOS 8. Huge companies, including Disney, GoDaddy, Rackspace, Toyota and Verizon, relied on CentOS, and they were reportedly not happy about RedHat's decision. SEE: Network security policy (TechRepublic Premium) One of the best ways to learn is via a Linux Foundation course.ĬentOS Linux is a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that closely tracks new RHEL releases, which explains why Rocky Linux version 8.4 is the first GA release of the distribution. Want a good tech job? Then you need to know Linux and open-source software.