Containerizing MoonRay: OSS from DreamWorks Animation Using Apptainer and Rocky Linux 9 Base Image
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Containerizing MoonRay: OSS from DreamWorks Animation Using Apptainer and Rocky Linux 9 Base Image

MoonRay is DreamWorks Animation’s in-house 3D renderer, used to render DreamWorks movies. DreamWorks has released MoonRay as open source, under the Apache 2.0 license. This is major news for the animation community, with many contributors already onboard with MoonRay. The official document provides two ways of building MoonRay: (1) Building MoonRay in a Docker container...

Set It Free: Up Close with Rocky Founder Greg Kurtzer

Set It Free: Up Close with Rocky Founder Greg Kurtzer

Editor’s note: This article by Joe Casad originally appeared in the Rocky Linux Focus Guide, published by Admin Network & Security magazine. Rocky Linux is new, but it draws from a long history of community-minded volunteers focused on keeping a free Linux option in the enterprise space. Rocky founder Greg Kurtzer tells the story. Tell...

How to Create a Samba Share in Rocky Linux from the Command Line

How to Create a Samba Share in Rocky Linux from the Command Line

The Samba project makes it possible to share directories and even printers across a network. Technically speaking, Samba is a suite of tools, created in 1992, to provide file and print services for clients that use the SMB/CIFS protocol. For any business that needs to give users and even teams access to shared resources on...

How to Back Up a Directory in Rocky Linux to Either an Attached or Network Drive

How to Back Up a Directory in Rocky Linux to Either an Attached or Network Drive

One of the things we love most about Linux is how flexible it is. Very often, it's possible to get things done with the pre-installed software. And on the occasion you don't have what you need to finish a task, it's often a quick sudo dnf install command away. One great example of the flexibility...

Rocky Linux: Unmatched Stability for Both Enterprise and HPC Users

Rocky Linux: Unmatched Stability for Both Enterprise and HPC Users

As the demand for stable, reliable, and secure enterprise-grade operating systems continues to rise, Rocky Linux has emerged as a top contender among community-driven Linux distros. Now the fastest-growing Enterprise Linux distribution, Rocky Linux is widely adopted in enterprise, cloud, hyperscale, and High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. In this post, we'll explore the reasons why...

RESF Elects Project Boards for Rocky Linux and Peridot

RESF Elects Project Boards for Rocky Linux and Peridot

We have another important announcement for anyone in the open source enterprise software community! The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) has announced the inaugural projects and project boards that will initiate the work of the Foundation. Rocky Linux and Peridot, the officially hosted projects, were named and their respective project boards were elected on January...

How to Install a NoSQL Database Server and Create Your First Database in Rocky Linux

How to Install a NoSQL Database Server and Create Your First Database in Rocky Linux

NoSQL databases are optimized for applications and use cases that require very large amounts of unstructured data with low latency and flexible data models. Because they are easily scalable and offer high availability, these types of databases are often used for real-time web applications and services that rely on big data. NoSQL databases are used...

How to Install a Relational Database Server and Create Your First Database in Rocky Linux

How to Install a Relational Database Server and Create Your First Database in Rocky Linux

Rocky Linux can be used for so many things, from hosting websites, container deployments, mail servers, development, DNS and/or DHCP servers, and of course, database servers. One type of database you can install and use is a relational database, which is used by so many applications (such as WordPress, Joomla, and Xoops). There are a...