Rocky Linux, a new Linux distribution built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It's the distribution that all the disaffected wanted users of CentOS, as its development as an LTS abruptly ended him December of 2020.
The head of the project is founder of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer, and announced the first release candidate for the upcoming 8.3 release:
The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) is pleased to announce the general availability of release candidate 1 for Rocky Linux 8.3 for x86_64 and AArch64 architectures.
This release is the culmination of months of hard work from every corner of the community. It started in a comment thread on a Red Hat blog in December 2020 and has grown into a community with over ten thousand members in a channel Slack within days. From there we assembled build teams around the infrastructure, branding teams, and for the website, special interest teams and more.”
Read the rest of it communication for more information
- Rocky-8.3-x86_64-dvd1.iso (8,921MB),
- Rocky-8.3-x86_64-minimal.iso (1,777MB),
- Rocky-8.3-x86_64-boot.iso (681MB).
