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ROCKY QUICKLINKS SOFTWARE

Licensing of Rocky Linux itself is 3-Clause BSD but, because Linux distributions are a collection of packages, each package may have its own licensing. He is no longer with us, so as a H/T to him, who never got to see the success that CentOS came to be, I introduce to you.Rocky Linux" - Gregory Kurtzer, Founder of Rocky Linux Rocky Linux Licensing In memory of Rocky, Greg decided it name this new distribution after him: In addition to Gregory Kurtzer, the CentOS Project was cofounded by Rocky McGaugh who has since passed away.

ROCKY QUICKLINKS SOFTWARE

Rocky Linux, the brainchild of CentOS founder Gregory Kurtzer, is a free, 100% bug-for-bug compatible fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 developed by the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation.

Rocky Linux Repositories and Release Lag.

Will it be reliable? How will it be supported? What does the community look like? What do we need to consider before migrating? To help answer some of these questions, we put together an overview of Rocky Linux, including how it compares to CentOS, support and migration considerations, and the current status of Rocky Linux repositories.

As a drop-in replacement for CentOS Linux (not to be confused with CentOS Stream) it has all the appearances of being a spiritual successor to CentOS Linux.īut for enterprise organizations, adopting a new distribution like Rocky Linux raises a number of questions. For folks who have had an eye on potential CentOS alternatives, Rocky Linux has been living in the spotlight.