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Rocky Linux


Last Update: 2024-11-20 10:51 UTC


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.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 50 (194), 6 months: 52 (198), 3 months: 48 (235), 4 weeks: 74 (186), 1 week: 65 (197)

Average visitor rating: 8.91/10 from 55 review(s).


Rocky Linux Summary
Distribution Rocky Linux
Home Page https://rockylinux.org/
Mailing Lists https://lists.resf.org/mailman3/lists/
User Forums https://forums.rockylinux.org/
Alternative User Forums https://chat.rockylinux.org/
Documentation https://wiki.rockylinux.org/
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Download Mirrors https://rockylinux.org/download
Bug Tracker https://bugs.rockylinux.org/
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Reviews 8.x: Dedoimedo
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Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2024-11-19: Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 9.5
 • 2024-05-10: Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 9.4
 • 2023-11-21: Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 9.3
 • 2023-05-16: Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 9.2
 • 2022-11-28: Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 9.1
 • 2022-11-16: Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 8.7
 • 2022-07-14: Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 9.0
 • 2022-05-17: Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 8.6
 • 2021-11-16: Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 8.5
 • 2021-06-21: Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 8.4
 • 2021-06-09: Development Release: Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1
 • 2021-05-01: Development Release: Rocky Linux 8.3 RC1
 • More Rocky releases...

  Headlines:
 • 2023-09-01 Rocky Linux dedicated to being compatible with RHEL
 • 2021-11-03 Rocky Linux team answers questions on Reddit
 • 2021-06-03 Rocky publishes status update
 • More Rocky headlines...

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Feature 9.5 8.10
Release Date 2024-11-19 2024-05-27
End Of Life 2032-05 2029-05
Price (US$) Free Free
Image Size (MB) 900-11000 800-12000
Free Download ISO ISO
Installation Graphical Graphical
Default Desktop GNOME GNOME
Package Management RPM (dnf) RPM (dnf)
Release Model Fixed Fixed
Office Suite LibreOffice LibreOffice
Processor Architecture aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 aarch64, x86_64
Init Software systemd systemd
Journaled File Systems Btrfs, ext4 Btrfs, ext4
Multilingual Yes Yes
Asian Language Support -- --
Full Package List 9.5 8.10
Package 9.5 8.10
abiword (3.0.5) -- --
alsa-lib (1.2.13) 1.2.12 1.2.10
amdgpu (23.0.0) -- --
bash (5.2.37) 5.1.8 4.4
bind (9.20.5) 9.18.29 9.16.23
chromium (133.0.6943.98) -- --
cups (2.4.11) 2.3.3 2.2.6
dhcp (4.4.3-P1) 4.4.2 4.3.6
e2fsprogs (1.47.2) 1.46.5 1.45.6
firefox (135.0) 128.4.0 115.11.0
freetype (2.13.3) 2.10.4 2.9.1
gcc (14.2.0) 11.5.0 8.5.0
gimp (2.10.38) 2.99.8 2.8.22
glibc (2.41) 2.34 2.28
gnome-shell (47.4) 40.10 3.32.2
gnucash (5.10) -- --
gnumeric (1.12.57) -- --
grub (2.12) 2.06 2.02
gtk (4.16.12) 4.12.3 3.22.30
httpd (2.4.63) 2.4.62 2.4.37
inkscape (1.4) 1.1.1 0.92.3
k3b (24.12.2) -- --
kmod (33) 28 25
krita (5.2.9) -- --
LibreOffice (25.2.0) 7.1.8 6.4.7
linux (6.13.2) 5.14 4.18
Package 9.5 8.10
lxpanel (0.10.1) -- --
mariadb (11.6.2) 10.11.6 10.11.6
mate-desktop (1.28.2) -- --
mesa (24.3.4) 24.1.2 23.1.4
mysql (9.2.0) 8.0.36 8.0.36
nautilus (47.2) 40.2 3.28.1
NVIDIA (565.77) -- --
openbox (3.6.1) -- --
openjdk (23.0.2) 21.0.1.0.12 17.0.7.0.7
openssh (9.9p1) 8.7p1 8.0p1
openssl (3.4.1) 3.2.2 1.1.1k
perl (5.40.1) 5.32.1 5.32.1
php (8.4.4) 8.2.13 8.2.13
plasma-desktop (6.3.0) -- --
postfix (3.9.1) 3.5.25 3.5.8
postgresql (17.3) 16.4 16.1
Python (3.13.2) 3.11.9 3.11.7
qt (6.8.2) 5.15.9 5.15.3
samba (4.21.3) 4.20.2 4.19.4
systemd (257.3) 252 239
thunderbird (135.0) 128.4.0 115.11.0
vim (9.1) 8.2 8.0
vlc (3.0.21) -- --
wayland (1.23.1) -- --
xfdesktop (4.20.0) -- --
xorg-server (21.1.15) 1.20.11 1.20.11

Reader Ratings
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Version: 9.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-25
Votes: 7


Been using RL with KDE plasma GUI since the demise of CentOS.

running dnf-automatic from cron every night, systems have been stable for years. bc I was busy starting a new job, I didn't even realize that they all upgraded from 9.4 to 9.5 until two months later.

Firefox, FreeCAD, 3D printing, google chrome/sheets, Visual Studio Code, Plex server, Plex MediaCenter, audacity, ffmpeg.

Stable

If you are looking for an alternative to Windows that doesn't require constant fiddling and just works as an operating system, I couldn't recommend it more.

I even have a system 3000 miles away with people who know nothing about windows or mac let alone Linux, and it just works.




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Version: 9.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-04
Votes: 5


I know this is meant as a server OS, but I use this as my everyday distro, it’s that stable. It’s kinda boring that I haven’t had any breakages or lockups using this for the past 6 months- but that’s a good thing, because it works and you don’t have to go through so much hassle and stress- that’s a plus. From visiting the forum, there are a lot of friendly, helpful people there- that’s another plus. Ram usage is normal and not too high, applications are quick to open and turning on the computer, it is pretty quick to get to the desktop, and the shutdown is pretty quick too.
Rocky is definitely a great distro to use, not just for server use, but as an everyday OS.
The only minus about it is, the insistence of this and other server distros to always have gnome as the default desktop environment- which is bad because the gnome developers make it so hard to change things to your liking and they make sure any workarounds become broken and mess up the distro- that is not at all a fault of Rocky Linux, but of the gnome developers. If you’re coming from Windows Server, gnome is definitely not the way to go about getting people use to their new home- KDE is lighter in resources, is more user-friendly (especially coming from Windows Server) and the developers listen to users’ feedback and are transparent and open, compared to gnome’s developers who are rude, standoffish and act like Microsoft making sure if you do any workarounds, they’ll sniff it out and make sure you can’t use the workarounds, and if you do, the updates will break your system and lead to hours of frustration- again, that’s the fault of the gnome developers, and not Rocky Linux.


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Version: 8.10
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-19
Votes: 45


Really like this distro. I have been using it on my workstation for about a month and a half and have very little issues with it. It is incredibly snappy, and getting things to install is not too complicated. I have asked the rocky forum from time to time on help of getting certain things installed but this is not rocky's fault, just the rhel nature so this would translate over to any of the other rhel distros (alma, oracle etc). Nvidia drivers do not install by default so it does require some investigating but it was well documented. This distro is my main everyday OS and I really love it.


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