There are several options regarding support for Rocky Linux. Rocky Linux 8 is a downstream rebuild of RHEL 8 and, as such, aligns with the RHEL 8 lifecycle and therefore will be actively maintained until 2029. Who Should Use Rocky Linux?Īnyone who switched, or consider switching, to CentOS Linux 8 and doesn’t want to deal with the extra overhead of switching to CentOS Stream 8 should consider Rocky Linux 8 as a potential candidate for their infrastructure. Licensing of Rocky Linux itself is 3-Clause BSD but, because Linux distributions are a collection of packages, each package may have its own licensing. He is no longer with us, so as a H/T to him, who never got to see the success that CentOS came to be, I introduce to you.Rocky Linux" - Gregory Kurtzer, Founder of Rocky Linux Rocky Linux Licensing In memory of Rocky, Greg decided it name this new distribution after him: In addition to Gregory Kurtzer, the CentOS Project was cofounded by Rocky McGaugh who has since passed away. Rocky Linux, the brainchild of CentOS founder Gregory Kurtzer, is a free, 100% bug-for-bug compatible fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 developed by the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation.
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