>[!DANGER] Avoid > While comparable to other [[RedHat Linux]] rebuilds, the entities behind it seem to be operating in a less than ideal fashion. > > See [[AlmaLinux]] instead. Rocky is a LICENSE licensed [[Linux]] distro based on [[RedHat]]. - [Website](https://rockylinux.org/) - [Source](https://github.com/rocky-linux) - Documentation - AlternativeTo > Rocky Linux is an open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux®. It is under intensive development by the community. # Notability It is kind of a replacement for what the original CentOS was. # Philosophy ## Monetization Rocky's trademarks are owned by a for-profit "[[Public Benefit Corporation]]" whose board members are primarily employees of another corporation. > An ordinary corporation may change to a benefit corporation merely by stating in its approved corporate bylaws that it is a benefit corporation. \- Benefit Corporation [article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation) on Wikipedia Rocky paywalls source with some code being closed entirely with restrictive licensing. Rocky's backers engage in advertising wars against other distros, including paid sponsorship of "influencers" without disclosure, which demonstrates a lack of good faith engagement with the open source community. ## Software Support tools for the distro are mostly in [[Python]] and [[Go]]. Rocky uses the standard RPM format for package management. # OS Support # Features # Tips # References - https://hackernoon.com/the-case-against-rocky-linux