Rocky Linux rebuilds sources directly from RHEL, so you can bet your best dollar that you’ll have a super stable experience, no matter the use-case.
Features
Production Ready
Rocky Linux is enterprise-ready, providing solid stability with regular updates and a 10-year support lifecycle, all at no cost.
Community Supported
The community, sponsors, and partners have invested with long-term commitments to ensure the project stays with the community.
Easy Migration
Migrate from other Enterprise Linux distributions without sweating it. We provide an easy-to-use migration script, free of charge.
What’s New
We are excited to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 9.4. This release is now available for the x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. Please consult the release notes on the Rocky Linux Documentation for important information, including known issues and detailed changes in this version.
Notable New Features and Changes
- Since Rocky Linux 9.3, Azure images are be published under the new publisher name: resf, moving away from the earlier, less intuitive name.
- In addition to the Azure Marketplace, Rocky Linux is available for free on the Azure Community Gallery, providing incredibly easy access to run Rocky on Microsoft Azure. Instructions on how to utilize the Community Gallery images can be found on this news post.
For a thorough list of updates and changes, refer to the Rocky Linux 9.4 Release Notes.
Special Interest Group Notes
- AWS images should now be able to boot in IPv6-only subnets, closing a longstanding bug that the Cloud SIG has worked with upstream to resolve
- Most images are now built with KIWI and our empanadas toolkit, with the exception of a few variants that are still using the old imagefactory method. If you have any trouble, please get in touch. More information is available in the full release notes.
Each supported architecture has various installation images available:
- DVD – effortless installation with all packages included, no additional repositories required.
- Boot – a single network installation CD image that downloads packages over the Internet.
- Minimal – a minimal self-containing DVD image that makes possible offline installation.
