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Your choice of Linux distribution can have a tremendous impact on the cost, security, stability, and performance of your computing environment. Whether it's due to limited features, slow performance, high licensing costs, or compatibility issues, there are a number of reasons why you might consider switching to a new Linux distribution. It’s time to make...
By now, you've read about how to install the Apache web server on Rocky Linux and are happily serving up your first web page or site from the document root directory. Although that's really cool, it only scratches the surface of what Apache can do. Let's say you have Rocky Linux up and running and...
Rocky Linux is an open source operating system that is ideal for so many server use cases. One very popular use for the OS is as a web server. The combination of Rocky Linux and Apache makes for an outstanding platform for serving up your company's websites, either internally or to the public at large....
Today is an exciting day for the open source enterprise software community! The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) has announced the initial board of directors members that are leading the effort to preserve the longevity, stewardship, and innovation of enterprise-grade open source software that is always freely available. The RESF was created to organize open...
At CIQ, we’re committed to freedom, open source, transparency, and security across every step of the software supply chain. In that spirit, we’re thrilled to announce that new CIQ enhancements to errata and security reporting are now available. Doubling down on our commitment to full open source reproducibility of the most current Rocky Linux bug...
Rocky Linux users have long benefited from the availability of Apptainer on the EPEL repository. Apptainer, formerly known as Singularity, is widely used in the HPC community. Ubuntu is the one another major distribution for Apptainer users. Now there is great news for Ubuntu and Windows/WSL2/Ubuntu Apptainer users! Apptainer pre-built binaries are now available on...
Our own Neil Hanlon, Linux Engineer at CIQ, will be giving a talk on Peridot at the upcoming CentOS Connect event in Brussels, Belgium on February 4th. Peridot is a new open source build system developed at the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) to simplify the process of maintaining a downstream rebuild of Red Hat...
Editor’s note: This article by Joe Casad originally appeared in the Rocky Linux Focus Guide, published by Admin Network & Security magazine. The open source world is constantly evolving, and new Linux distributions tend to appear whenever there is a need for them. Rocky Linux just appeared last year, partly in response to a shake-up...
During this economic downturn, companies are cutting costs and rethinking their investments. This has contributed to the rapid adoption of Rocky Linux as a rock-solid, stable, community-backed, production-ready, free, open source operating system. In fact, Rocky is now the fastest-growing Enterprise Linux distribution, widely adopted because of its low total cost of ownership (TCO), proven...
Rocky Linux is a community-driven, free, and open source Linux distribution that aims to provide a rock-solid, stable foundation for businesses, organizations, and individuals. It is built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), which means that it inherits the stability and reliability of RHEL while being open and transparent in its...
Every Friday from 2-4 PM CST, instructor Dave Rush walks listeners through new features of Raspberry Pi on the TotalSeminars channel on YouTube. In this new episode, Dave welcomes Gregory Kurtzer (founder of CentOS and Rocky Linux) and Skip Grube (who maintains the Rocky image for Raspberry Pi), who talk about FOSS distro development, upstream/downstream...
Rocky Linux is a powerful, open-source operating system built for servers that can help power businesses of all sizes. Rocky Linux can be installed as either a command-line-only OS or a default GUI that can help make using Linux a bit easier (especially for those who are only now taking their first steps with the...