The default desktop environment in Rocky Linux 9 is Gnome 40, the latest GNOME release featuring a redesigned UI and better user experience. Other prominent features of the latest Rocky Linux version are: The aim is to facilitate the creation of new RHEL forks in case Rocky Linux is ever discontinued in the future and to allow the Rocky Linux project to create new releases faster.

Rocky Linux 8.Note: Install Rocky Linux in RAM on our Bare Metal Cloud and experience blazing-fast speeds and performance. Do you want to know more? Then also read the articles below! That is why we have written about it before. This topic plays a major role in our community. 💡Create a snapshot (or a backup) first to ensure that nothing is lost. Simply follow these instructions on Github to migrate correctly. Image of Rocky Linux in our configurator How to migrate to Rocky Linux 8.4ĭo you work with CentOS 8? If you want, you can opt to convert to Rocky Linux 8.4. Choose ‘Operating system', then ‘Linux', and lastly ‘Rocky Linux'. Visit our configurator to make your selection. Rocky Linux has now been officially released, and it is also featured in our configurator. Rocky Linux 8.4 is now available with Tilaa Gregory Kurtzer, one of CentOS's founders, is one of the main developers. It is an open enterprise community operating system. Rocky Linux intends to act as a downstream build, similar to CentOS, creating updates after they have been added by the upstream distributor, rather than before. Rocky Linux (and AlmaLinux) were born as a result of this decision. When Red Hat announced that it would be shifting its focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS stream, it stunned developers all over the world. Since this is the first Rocky Linux GA release, it's a significant milestone.

Rocky Linux 8.4, from the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation is now available (GA).

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