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Rocky Linux


Last Update: 2023-05-17 01:13 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: 34 (270), 6 months: 39 (250), 3 months: 35 (290), 4 weeks: 15 (493), 1 week: 33 (290)

Average visitor rating: 8.82/10 from 44 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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Bug Tracker https://bugs.rockylinux.org/
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Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 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...

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 • 2021-11-03 Rocky Linux team answers questions on Reddit
 • 2021-06-03 Rocky publishes status update
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Feature 9.2 8.7
Release Date 2023-05-16 2022-11-16
End Of Life 2032-05 2029-05
Price (US$) Free Free
Image Size (MB) 800-9100 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 9.2 8.7
Package 9.2 8.7
abiword (3.0.5) -- --
alsa-lib (1.2.9) 1.2.8 1.2.7.2
amdgpu (23.0.0) -- --
bash (5.2.15) 5.1.8 4.4.20
bind (9.18.15) 9.16.23 9.11.36
chromium (114.0.5735.90) -- --
cups (2.4.3) 2.3.3 2.2.6
dhcp (4.4.3-P1) 4.4.2 4.3.6
e2fsprogs (1.47.0) 1.46.5 1.45.6
firefox (113.0.2) 102.9.0 102.4.0
freetype (2.13.0) 2.10.4 2.9.1
gcc (13.1.0) 11.3.1 8.5.0
gimp (2.10.34) 2.99.8 2.8.22
glibc (2.37) 2.34 2.28
gnome-shell (44.2) 40.10 3.32.2
gnucash (5.1) -- --
gnumeric (1.12.55) -- --
grub (2.06) 2.06 2.02
gtk (4.10.3) 4.4.1 3.22.30
httpd (2.4.57) 2.4.53 2.4.37
inkscape (1.2.2) 1.1.1 0.92.3
k3b (23.04.1) -- --
kmod (30) 28 25
krita (5.1.5) -- --
libreoffice (7.5.3) 7.1.8 6.4.7
linux (6.3.5) 5.14 4.18
Package 9.2 8.7
lxpanel (0.10.1) -- --
mariadb (10.11.3) 10.5.16 10.5.16
mate-desktop (1.26.1) -- --
mesa (23.1.1) 22.3.0 22.1.5
mysql (8.0.33) 8.0.30 8.0.30
nautilus (44.2) 40.2 3.28.1
NVIDIA (530.41.03) -- --
openbox (3.6.1) -- --
openjdk (20.0.1) 17.0.18.0.10 11.0.15.0.9
openssh (9.3p1) 8.7p1 8.0p1
openssl (3.1.1) 3.0.7 1.1.1k
perl (5.36.1) 5.32.1 5.32.1
php (8.2.6) 8.1.14 8.0.20
plasma-desktop (5.27.5) -- --
postfix (3.8.0) 3.5.9 3.5.8
postgresql (15.3) 15.2 13.7
Python (3.11.3) 3.11.2 3.9.13
qt (6.5.1) 5.15.3 5.15.3
samba (4.18.3) 4.17.5 4.16.4
systemd (253.5) 252 239
thunderbird (102.11.2) 102.9.0 102.4.0
vim (9.0) 8.2 8.0
vlc (3.0.18) -- --
wayland (1.22.0) -- --
xfdesktop (4.18.1) -- --
xorg-server (21.1.8) 1.20.11 1.20.11

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Version: 9.2
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-05-27
Votes: 3


 Much better than Oracle Linux.
Installer actually works, doesn't supper from any broken repo issues during setup and doesn't freeze/lock up like in Oracle Linux installer does.
Is actually stable unlike Oracle Linux.
Definitely higher on the performance scale than Oracle Linux fro what I have observed on my hardware at least.
Appears to have more frequent release cycles. Keep it up guys!
Has a cool logo unlike Oracle Linux :D
Overall it just feels like a much better executed project in comparison.
I would trust this to run on my servers long term instead of Oracle Linux.

Did I mention Oracle Linux is not that good?

Overall it's shaping up to be the real successor to CentOS. Everything is headed in the right direction.




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Version: 8.7
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-01
Votes: 12


 After some successful tests we migrated all our servers from CentOS to Rocky in the last 12 months. In the meantime, over 100 servers are running Rocky here to our complete satisfaction. No issues, no crashes, all in all a perfect replacement for CentOS.

We don't have any desktop applications on our machines so i can't comment on that, but as a server operating system i can recommend Rocky without reservation.

In short: we had imagined the replacement of CentOS to be much worse. Well done Rocky.



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Version: 9.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-04
Votes: 2


 a beast of a desktop

blazing fast

nice integration with nvidia

nice flatpak integration for apps -

looks very nice with zorin theme, menta icons

secure with RHEL tools (firewalld, etc...)

average reboot ~1/month (much better than arch / etc... in my usecase, as i reboot with new kernel updates).

has never crashed

does use some memory, but what the heck...

running on all 3 of my 'z' workstations without a hitch, including an old z620 (wanted to use debian for that system, but interestingly could not configure booting from default drive => nvme (cannot boot nvme directly)).






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