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    Rocky Linux

    Jun 29, 2021 4 minutes

    A petition to save ‘classic’ CentOS at http:// bit.ly/lxf278-centos-petition seems to have petered out at around 12,000 signatures. But we’ve no doubt that some of our CentOS-using readership will want to resist the pull of the currents and streams Red Hat-ward.

    CentOS co-founder Greg Kurtzer was sufficiently motivated as to start a new project, Rocky Linux, with the aim of providing an enterprise distro positioned downstream from RHEL. The name honours Kurtzer’s fellow co-founder Rocky McGough, sadly now passed. Thinking about it, even if CentOS wasn’t a RedHat trademark, that dedication still makes it a better name than Classic CentOS.

    Just after Rocky Linux launched it enjoyed some engagement-metric glory by way of being the top trending repository (for

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