With Rocky Enterprise Linux a new Enterprise Linux rises as a challenger in the ring with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES). Launched by the creators of the Community Enterprise Operating System (CentOS), “Rocky” wants to outdo the new AlmaLinux OS based on RHEL.
RHEL clone as CentOS successor
CentOS founder Gregory Kurtzer and other members of the CentOS project have launched the new, primarily community-driven enterprise distribution, after the CentOS team would like to focus primarily on the newer experimental rolling release CentOS Stream in the future. Support for CentOS 8 will expire at the end of 2021.
Like CentOS, Rocky Enterprise Linux is based one-to-one on the code of the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 and is therefore 100 percent compatible.
Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100 percent bug-for-bug compatible with America's top enterprise Linux distribution now that its downstream partner has shifted direction.
Rocky Enterprise Linux
Rocky has a great legacy because, according to W³Techs, CentOS will be the third most widely used Linux distribution for web servers in 2021 after Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux with a market share of around 10 percent.
< h2 class = "text-width text-h2" id = "section_erster_release_candidate_veroeffentlicht"> First release candidate published
With Rocky 8.3 (ISO) there is already a first release candidate to try out available for everyone. The final release of the enterprise distribution is expected for the 2nd quarter of 2021.
The Linux-specialized YouTube channel “DorianDotSlash” has already got Rocky Enterprise Linux 8.3 once viewed in detail.
Further information is available from the official website and the Rocky Linux Wiki .