![]() Gregory Kurtzer, who was one of the founders of CentOS and is the founder of Rocky Linux, the Rocky Linux community and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, was in good spirits as the hours and minutes of April 30th were winding down. That way, everything from release candidate to polished GA release will be built by the same processes and procedures, thereby reducing variations and improving repeatability. In what I gathered from the various discussions within the Rocky Linux Community, the Dev/Packaging Team’s desire was to not release anything until the build systems and infrastructure were in place. After all, rebuilding Red Hat Enterprise Linux into a bug-for-bug compatible distribution that can be easily maintained moving forward is no small task. While the release candidate did experience a one-month delay due to “ complications in the build efforts," the delay is understandable. Behind the Scenes on the Rocky Linux Release Candidate In this blog, I share my first-hand experiences behind the scenes of the Rocky Linux release candidate launch, discuss the build up to the general availability release, and provide links to torrents and Vagrant boxes for the Rocky Linux release candidate. ![]() On the heels of that announcement, a small group led by Gregory Kurtzer announced their intention to release a bug-for-bug compatible Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution to fill that void.įlash forward 144 days later to Saturday, May 1, 2021, and Rocky Linux has released their inaugural release candidate - Rocky Linux -RC1. The decision by Red Hat to discontinue their focus on CentOS left many teams scrambling for answers, and alternatives. ![]() At the beginning of this year, the Enterprise Linux landscape was in turmoil. ![]()
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