available For testing Candidate of Releases distribution Rocky Linux 8.4 aimed at creating a new RHEL free assembly that can take the place of classic CentOS, after the 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 8.4. 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. 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.
In addition to the Rocky Linux as an alternative to the classic CentOS 8, VZLinux is positioned (prepared by Virtuozzo), Almalinux (develops Cloudlinux, together with the community) and Oracle Linux. 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.