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Numerous people told me that CIQ and I are perfect fits for each other, yet joining the CIQ team is as much about being in the right place at the right time. I’ve spent a long time working in big silicon feeling like I was mostly swimming upstream against a tide of ‘just push sand’ mantras.
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...
Image-generating AI models are currently taking the internet by storm, with some of the most popular and well-known of these being part of the DALL·E series of models created by OpenAI. The most advanced of these, DALL·E 2, can generate extremely realistic (or surrealistic) images from simple prompts written in natural language - including, for...
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...
In the first post of this series, we showed how to create a Rocky Linux 8.5 virtual machine from CIQ’s Rocky Linux 8.5 image using Microsoft Azure’s web portal. This is the quickest way to get a running virtual machine since no software need be installed locally and the portal can be used to create...
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...