Rocky Linux 9.0

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Post by TangerineDream » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 4:14 PM UTC

Re: Rocky Linux 9.0

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Post by jjice » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 6:34 PM UTC

Hadn't heard about Rocky Linux since the initial announcement, but this is really great to see. 10 year LTS is pretty great, especially coming from Amazon Linux where you're lucky for three years...

Re: Rocky Linux 9.0

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Post by chomp » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 6:43 PM UTC

I'm super excited about this because it's being done in tandem with the release of Peridot, Rocky's internal tooling to build and maintain distro forks.

https://github.com/rocky-linux/peridot

Re: Rocky Linux 9.0

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Post by bravetraveler » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:05 PM UTC

Is anyone aware of a decent reference comparing say Alma and Rocky?

I imagine the 'product' is essentially the same, but policies or procedures may differ - and these can be significant! It's what draws me to the Fedora project so much.

Asking as someone who wasn't really that bothered by CentOS Stream. I've seen it as basically rolling point releases, which wouldn't be a problem for me personally

Re: Rocky Linux 9.0

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Post by gravitate » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:06 PM UTC

Why should I use this over, say, Ubuntu or Linux Mint? What’s the unique selling point? And what’s the target audience besides Linux enthusiasts who still distrohop?

Re: Rocky Linux 9.0

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Post by jmclnx » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

congrads on 9.0!

Re: Rocky Linux 9.0

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Post by rnd0 » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:10 PM UTC

gravitate wrote: post #5

Why should I use this over, say, Ubuntu or Linux Mint? What’s the unique selling point? And what’s the target audience besides Linux enthusiasts who still distrohop?

I think the target audience is people who want RHEL but don't want to pay for it -same as almalinux?

Re: Rocky Linux 9.0

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Post by NoahKAndrews » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:10 PM UTC

gravitate wrote: post #5

Why should I use this over, say, Ubuntu or Linux Mint? What’s the unique selling point? And what’s the target audience besides Linux enthusiasts who still distrohop?

This is an equivalent to CentOS, now that there won't be any more CentOS major releases besides CentOS Stream.

Re: Rocky Linux 9.0

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Post by bubblethink » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:10 PM UTC

gravitate wrote: post #5

Why should I use this over, say, Ubuntu or Linux Mint? What’s the unique selling point? And what’s the target audience besides Linux enthusiasts who still distrohop?

It's a downstream rebuild of RHEL 9. The release notes page tragically fails to mentions that. Chalk that up to failures of trademark law.

Re: Rocky Linux 9.0

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:10 PM UTC

gravitate wrote: post #5

Why should I use this over, say, Ubuntu or Linux Mint? What’s the unique selling point? And what’s the target audience besides Linux enthusiasts who still distrohop?

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