presented the release of the distribution Rocky Linux 8.8 , aimed at creating a free assembly of RHEL, capable of taking a place of classic centos, after the company Red Hat stopped supporting the Centos 8 branch at the end of 2021, and not in 2029, as was originally supposed to . Build Rocky Linux prepared for architectures x86_64 and Aarch64. Additionally, assemblies for Oracle Cloud Platform (OCP) cloud.
GenericCloud, Amazon AWS (EC2), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, as well as images for containers and virtual machines in Rootfs/OCI and Vagrant formats (Libvirt, VirtualBox, VMware).
As in the classic CentOS, the Rocky Linux changes are reduced to get rid of refinement to the Red Hat brand. The distribution is completely binary compatible with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 and includes all the improvements proposed in this issue. For example, new versions of the GCC Toolset 12, LLVM Toolset 15.0.7, Rust Toolset 1.66, Go Toolset 1.19.4, Python 3.11, Node.js 18.14, PostgreSQL 15, GIT 2.39.1, Nginx 1.22, Libreswan 4.9, NetworkManager 1. 40. 16, Samba 4.17.5. Among the changes specific for Rocky Linux, the supply of additional repositories can be noted: plus with the Open-vm-tools package, nfv C packets for virtualization of networks developed by the SIG group NFV (Network Functions Virtualization), RT with packages for work in real time.
The project was translated under the protection of recently created Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (Resf), which registered as a public-useful corporation ( Public Benefits Corporation ), not aimed at making a profit. The owner of the organization is Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of Centos, but the control functions in accordance with the adopted charter delegated to the board of directors in which the community is elected participants involved in the work on the project.
In parallel for the development of expanded products based on Rocky Linux and supporting the developers of this distribution, a commercial company CTRL IQ was created, which received $ 26 million. The Rocky Linux distribution itself promises to develop, regardless of CTRL IQ under the control of the community. Companies such as Google, Amazon Web Services, Gitlab, Montavista, 45Drives, Opendrives and Naver Cloud.