The CentOS project announced a “shift in CentOS strategy” last year (20 December 2020) : CentOS 8 will end in 2021. There will be no CentOS 9 after this, but instead CentOS Stream is called a rolling distribution. “CentOS6 has stopped all updates” and all official CentOS6 sources have been removed. CentOS6 sources such as Alibaba, 163 and Tsinghua are no longer available.

CentOS previously existed as a downstream build of the upstream vendor (it receives patches and updates after the upstream vendor), whereas it will move to the upstream build (testing patches and updates before being included with the upstream vendor). In addition, official support for CentOS 8 has been shortened from May 31, 2029 to December 31, 2021.

So Rocky Linux, created by the father of CentOS (goodbye CentOS! Rocky Linux is coming).

Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system whose downstream partners have changed direction to achieve 100% error compatibility with top ENTERPRISE Linux distributions in the United States. The community is developing vigorously. Rocky Linux is led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project. Release candidate 1 is now ready for testing. Contributors are requested to contact using the communication options available on this site.

  • Official address: RockyLinux.org

  • To download the image, go to rockylinux.org/download

After all the development, all the ups and downs,Rocky Linux is finally here, this time for real.

So, migrant brother also downloaded the official image file in the first time, bring together to try new, installation experience a wave.

In this paper, the image file download address is as follows: download.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8…

Now it’s dry…

Select Install Rocky Linux 8 and press Enter

Select the language

Selecting the Installation Position

Setting the Administrator password

Start the installation

After the installation is complete, restart the system

The system page is displayed after the restart

The system page is displayed

The following is the system interface with the GUI interface

Rocky Linux 8 is not difficult to install. The steps and operations are the same as those of CentOS 7 and 8. Interested readers can download the installation file to install the virtual machine to play.

Deploy the first application (nginx service) on a Rocky Linux system

This version is not yet suitable for production use, so you can install it in your local environment.

If you want to move your production system to a Rocky Linux system later on, this is the best time to get familiar with it.

We are looking forward to seeing Rocky Linux in the near future as a good experience, or as a direct replacement for CentOS for real production environments.