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We’re delighted to announce that Atempo, a European-based software vendor that provides solutions to protect, store, move and recover mission-critical data sets, has partnered with CIQ to complete the certification of Rocky Linux for all of Atempo’s offerings. This is exciting news for Atempo customers, as they are looking for open source operating system choices...
Rocky Linux is among the most frequently adopted Linux distributions now that CentOS 8 has been end-of-lifed. According to metrics tracked by the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) Special Interest Group (SIG), Rocky Linux adoption is outpacing all other Enterprise Linux variants. How do we track Rocky’s quick uptake as an Enterprise Linux replacement...
We are thrilled to announce that Rakuten Symphony, Inc., and CIQ are supporting open source Rocky Linux to deliver a real-time high-performance operating system for Distributed Unit (DU) radio processing software. Rakuten Symphony is reimagining telecom, changing supply chain norms, and disrupting outmoded thinking that threatens the industry’s pursuit of rapid innovation and growth. Based on...
Prerequisites Before we get into the migration process, let’s make sure you’re set up for success. Source Linux Distribution/Version Target Rocky Linux Version Tool/Script CentOS Stream, CentOS, Alma Linux, RHEL, or Oracle Linux Version 8.x Rocky Linux 8.x migrate2rocky.sh CentOS Stream, CentOS, Alma Linux, RHEL, or Oracle Linux Version 9.x Rocky Linux 9.x migrate2rocky9.sh The Rocky Linux...
Congratulations! You have just successfully installed the latest version of Rocky Linux on your system. We conducted a short informal survey of typical things that Rocky Linux power users do to personalize their systems right after a fresh install and we’ve collected the list here. Where applicable, we’ve put the list into helpful categories to...
Rocky Linux 9 was recently released with a host of exciting features and support for new architectures. The most buzzworthy tool is Peridot, a completely cloud-native build system for managing and updating Rocky Linux. What this means is that anyone can build, enhance, and reproduce Rocky Linux independently using Peridot; it also means that the...
CIQ is the official founding support and services partner for the Rocky Linux project, and we are excited to announce the release of Rocky Linux 8.6. We are thankful to the entire Rocky Linux Community for helping to bring this release to fruition. Rocky Linux 8.6 can be downloaded for various architectures from the project...
A previous article covered how to quickly launch a Rocky Linux instance using the web interface on the Azure portal. In this article, I summarize how to do a similar thing using the Azure CLI tools. A follow-on post will spin up virtual machines and immediately customize them with cloud-init, an interesting and rich topic...
We recently published Rocky Linux 8.5 on Microsoft’s Azure Cloud platform. Our Rocky is freely available as a service to the community or with bundled support on a flat rate pay-as-you-go basis. As the founding support and services partner for Rocky Linux, CIQ looks to have Rocky quickly and conveniently available everywhere you want to...
Introduction Rocky Linux 8 systems are pretty secure out of the box. New Rocky Linux (RL) 8 installations adhere to industry best practices and conform to the high standards set by the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution that it is rebuilt from. Fortunately, the high standards set by the upstream distribution means that Rocky...