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The Sentry Firewall CD-ROM was designed to be an easy to manage and configure CD-ROM based Linux operating system suitable for use in a firewall, IDS (Intrusion Detection System) or server environment. The system was designed to be immediately configurable for a variety of different operating environments via a configuration file located on a floppy disk, a local hard drive, and/or a network via HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP, or SCP. Currently, the system was based on a Slackware 9.0 installation. Various other packages and utilities have also been added to increase this system's functionality.
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2022-11-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 8.7 |
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Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's latest release is Rocky Linux 8.7. The distribution's release announcement covers the new version's highlights: "Notable changes: NetworkManager has been rebased to 1.40, notes for this version of NetworkManager are available here; new module stream versions include Node.js 18, Mercurial 6.2, Maven 3.8 and Ruby 3.1; new compiler toolset versions include GCC 12, LLVM 14.0.6, Rust 1.62 and Go 1.18; the default value of the LimitRequestBody directive in httpd has been changed from unlimited to 1GiB to fix CVE-2022-29404; SSSD now supports direct integration with Windows Server 2022; cloud images - official Rocky Linux images are now available on Oracle Cloud Platform; Artifacts behind all images built are now exported for development use; LVM variants of the generic, EC2 and Azure images are now available." Further details can be found in the release notes. Download (SHA256, torrent, pkglist): Rocky-8.7-x86_64-dvd1.iso (11,568MB), Rocky-8.7-x86_64-minimal.iso (2,212MB), Rocky-8.7-x86_64-boot.iso (870MB). |
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Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is available for the x86_64 and AArch64 processor architectures.
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2024-11-19 |
Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 9.5 |
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Rocky Linux is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux which strives to be "bug-for-bug" compatible with upstream. The project's latest release is Rocky Linux 9.5 which features updates to administrative tools such as Podman, Cockpit, and development tools. "Notable new features and changes: Podman - Rocky Linux 9.5 ships with the latest and greatest Podman version 5.0; Podman 5.0 introduces exciting new features like fast Podman machine boot times, Podman Farm for multi-platform image building, greater compatibility for volumes in podman kube play, Quadlet enhancements and a more performant default networking stack; Cockpit, the web console for easy remote server management, now provides file management capabilities via the Cockpit Files plugin, this feature requires installing the cockpit-files package; dynamic programming languages, web and database servers - Apache HTTP Server 2.4.62, Node.js 22; system toolchain - GCC 11.5, Annobin 12.70; performance tools and debuggers - GDB 14.2, Valgrind 3.23.0, SystemTap 5.1, elfutils 0.191, libabigail 2.5...." Additional information is offered through the distribution's release announcement and release notes. Download (pkglist): Rocky-9.5-x86_64-dvd.iso (10,976MB, SHA256, torrent), Rocky-9.5-x86_64-minimal.iso (1,808MB, SHA256, torrent), Rocky-9.5-x86_64-boot.iso (1,019MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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2024-05-10 |
Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 9.4 |
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Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's latest release, Rocky Linux 9.4, introduces a number of changes to further customize the operating system and improve security. "From Rocky Linux 9.4 forward, you can specify arbitrary custom mount points except for specific paths that are reserved for the operating system. Creation of different partitioning modes is now available including auto-lvm, lvm, and raw. Customize tailor options for a profile and add it to your blueprint customizations by using selected and unselected options to add and remove rules. Security: Listed below are security-related highlights in the latest Rocky Linux 9.4 release. For a complete list of security-related changes, see the upstream link. SELinux userspace release 3.6 introduces deny rules for further customizing policies. Keylime server components, the verifier and registrar, are available as Containers. Rsyslog processing system introduces customizable TLS/SSL encryption settings and additional options that relate to capability dropping. OpenSSL TLS toolkit adds a drop-in directory for provider-specific configuration files. libkcapi 1.4.0 introduces new tools and options. Notably, with the new -T option, you can specify target file names in hash-sum calculations. stunnel 5.7.1 TLS/SSL tunneling service changes the behavior of OpenSSL 1.1 and later versions in FIPS mode. Besides this change, this version provides many new features such as support for modern PostgreSQL clients." Additional information can be found in the release announcement and in the release notes. Download (SHA256, torrent, pkglist): Rocky-9.4-x86_64-dvd.iso (10,410MB), Rocky-9.4-x86_64-minimal.iso (1,744MB), Rocky-9.4-x86_64-boot.iso (949MB).
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2023-11-21 |
Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 9.3 |
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Louis Abel has announced the release of Rocky Linux 9.3, the latest stable version from a project that develops a community clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: "We are pleased to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 9.3. This release is currently available for the x86-64, aarch64, ppc64le and s390x architectures. The 9.3 release brings back cloud and container images for ppc64le that were not released with 9.2 due to issues with QEMU. These images may be divergent from the other architecture's images in some small ways, but we will work to reduce this delta in future releases of the images. The kernel-rt package has been merged into a subpackage of kernel. A new kernel-uki package was introduced as a technology preview, providing a Unified Kernel Image variant for booting. This UKI image is signed with its own SecureBoot key. A java-21-openjdk package was introduced providing a new version of Java. Current users of Rocky Linux 9 can upgrade to 9.3 from the terminal via dnf update, or from the desktop with GNOME Software, KDE Discover, etc." Read the release announcement and the release notes for further information and upgrade instructions. Download (SHA256, pkglist): Rocky-9.3-x86_64-dvd.iso (10,0027MB, torrent), Rocky-9.3-x86_64-minimal.iso (1,608MB), Rocky-9.3-x86_64-boot.iso (900MB). |
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2023-05-16 |
Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 9.2 |
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Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's latest update is Rocky Linux 9.2 which includes a number of fixes and improvements. The release announcement mentions an upgrade issue with Python along with a list of new features: "LVM cloud image variants now remove /etc/lvm/devices/system.devices to resolve issues with PV/VG/LVs upon installation of the images due to being hardcoded to a specific device. An aarch64 kernel with a 64kb page size is now available via the package kernel-64k. nfsrahead, a tool to configure the readahead for NFS mounts, was added. Intel Arc GPU support has been added. The infamous Flatpak bug that breaks all fonts in applications using the default font (Cantarell) has been fixed! Wireguard once again works with SELinux enabled. A more complete list of new features and changes is available in the Rocky Linux 9.2 release notes." Download (SHA256, pkglist): Rocky-9.2-x86_64-dvd.iso (9,018MB, torrent), Rocky-9.2-x86_64-minimal.iso (1,536MB, torrent), Rocky-9.2-x86_64-boot.iso (862MB, torrent). |
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2022-11-28 |
Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 9.1 |
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Rocky Linux 9.1, a distribution built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.1 and 100% compatible with its parent, has been released: "We are pleased to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 9.1. This release is currently available for the x86-64, aarch64, ppc64le and s390x architectures. Rocky Linux 9.1 was subjected to over 9 days of testing before receiving the team’s approval. Testing logs, discussion and the release checklist can be viewed here. Notable changes: Keylime, a remote boot attestation and runtime integrity management solution using Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) is now available; new module stream versions include Node.js 18, PHP 8.1, Maven 3.8 and Ruby 3.1; new compiler toolset versions include GCC 12, LLVM 14.0.6, Rust 1.62 and Go 1.18. Container images are now available for all x86-64, aarch64, ppc64le and s390x. Vagrant images are now available for x86-64 and aarch64. Official Rocky Linux images are now available on Oracle Cloud Platform." Read the release announcement and the release notes for further information. Download (SHA256, torrent, pkglist)): Rocky-9.1-x86_64-dvd.iso (8,591MB), Rocky-9.1-x86_64-minimal.iso (1,519MB), Rocky-9.1-x86_64-boot.iso (804MB). |
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2022-07-14 |
Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 9.0 |
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The Rocky Linux team have announced a new release of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone, Rocky Linux 9.0. The new release offers GNOME 40, the ability to run different applications on different video cards, and filesystem improvements to reduce latency. "Rocky Linux 9 ships with GNOME 40 as the default desktop environment. Redesigned core apps, settings, and UI make it easier than ever to use Rocky Linux as a desktop operating system. The Activities look and feel provides a better experience when working, launching applications and arranging your personal workspace. Other notable improvements for desktop usage include: Software can be run on a separate graphics card by right-clicking and selecting the appropriate option; the ability to mute notifications by selecting Do not disturb, which will appear as a separate button in the notification; each screen can use a different refresh rate; the Activities program allows you to group application icons into folders using a drag-and-drop method; fractional display scaling." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download (SHA256, torrent, pkglist)): Rocky-9.0-x86_64-dvd.iso (8,067MB), Rocky-9.0-x86_64-minimal.iso (1,424MB), Rocky-9.0-x86_64-boot.iso (766MB). |
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2022-05-17 |
Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 8.6 |
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Louis Abel has announced the release of Rocky Linux 8.6, the new stable version of the project's community clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: "We are pleased to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 8.6. This release is available for the x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. Highlights: PHP 8.0 provides bug fixes and enhancements, namely to the use of structured metadata syntax, newly named arguments that are order-independent, and improved performance for Just-In-Time compilation; Perl 5.32 provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements, including support for Unicode version 13, a new experimental infix operator, and faster feature checks; high availability (HA) cluster system role - this role helps create and manage secure, stable HA clusters; enhanced network system role - this role helps users create secure connections (including over Wi-Fi) along with robust firewall rules...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and upgrade instructions. Download (SHA256, pkglist): Rocky-8.6-x86_64-dvd1.iso (10,694MB, torrent), Rocky-8.6-x86_64-minimal.iso (2,161MB), Rocky-8.6-x86_64-boot.iso (856MB). |
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2021-11-16 |
Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 8.5 |
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Rocky Linux is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, built from the upstream project's source code. The Rocky Linux team have launched version 8.5 of their operating system. One of the major changes in this release is the debut support for Secure Boot. "In less then 48 hours from RHEL-8.5 being released, we had successful tests on our ISOs and just before we were about to pull the string to go GA with 8.5, Microsoft countersigned our Secure Boot shim. We quickly deliberated and decided to backtrack and incorporate that into the 8.5 release. There were some things that we had to get in order and resolved, but it is with great pleasure that this release includes the official Rocky Linux signed shim. Here is the full thread to the shim review. As with any security related diligence, it is important to be able to validate the Secure Boot shim is exactly what you expect and that it is properly activated." Additional information is available in the distribution's release notes. Download (SHA256, pkglist): Rocky-8.5-x86_64-dvd1.iso (10,220MB, torrent), Rocky-8.5-x86_64-minimal.iso (2,028MB), Rocky-8.5-x86_64-boot.iso (789MB). |
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