Rocky Linux
A free community rebuild of RHEL, started by a CentOS co-founder after CentOS Linux ended. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
- Created by
- Gregory Kurtzer
- First release
- 2021
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://rockylinux.org
- Family
- Red Hat / Fedora
- Based on
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Package manager
- DNF
- Package format
- rpm
- Release model
- Fixed releases
- Release cadence
- Follows RHEL
- Support lifetime
- 10 years
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- GNOME
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Server, Cloud
- Backed by
- A community
- Beginner friendliness
- 3 of 5
- Architectures
- x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, s390x