Available For testing Candidate Releases Distribution Rocky Linux 8.3 , aimed at creating a new RHEL free assembly, able to occupy a classic CentOS, after RED Hat has decided to stop supporting the CentOS branch at the end of 2021, and not in 2029, As it was assumed initially. Assembling Rocky Linux Prepared for architectures x86_64 and aarch64.
Distribution fully binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3. As in the classic CentOS, the changes entered in packages are reduced to delivering from binding to the Red Hat brand. The project is developing under the guidance of Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of the CentOS. In parallel, a commercial CTRL IQ company, which received $ 4 million, has been created for the development of advanced products based on Rocky Linux and supporting the developers of the Distribution of this distribution. The Rocky Linux distribution itself promises to develop independently of the company Ctrl IQ under community management. Montavista, 45drives, OpenDrives and Amazon Web Services also joined the development and financing of the project.
As an alternative to the old CentOS, except Rocky Linux, with the support of Cloudlinux company, the Almalinux project is developing, the first stable release of which has already been held at the end of March. Oracle Linux is also promoted to replace CENTOS. In addition, Red Hat has provided the possibility of free use of RHEL in organizations developing open software, and in the environment of individual developers consisting of up to 16 virtual or physical systems.