Rocky Linux 8.3, created by the father of CentOS, is released! Enclosed download link and installation tutorial

The CentOS project last year (December 20, 2020) announced the " CentOS strategic shift" : CentOS 8 will end in 2021. It means that the CentOS 9 system will not appear after this, and it will be replaced by CentOS Stream, which is called a rolling release version. Not long ago, it was announced that "CentOS 6 will stop all updates" , and it has removed all official CentOS6 sources, including Alibaba, 163, Tsinghua, etc. CentOS 6 sources are no longer available.

CentOS used to exist as a downstream build of the upstream vendor (it received patches and updates after the upstream vendor), but it will move to the upstream build (test patches and updates before being included in the upstream vendor). In addition, official support for CentOS 8 has been shortened from May 31, 2029 to December 31, 2021.

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

Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system, and its downstream partners have changed directions, aiming to achieve 100% error compatibility with the top US corporate Linux distributions. The community is developing vigorously. Rocky Linux is led by Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of the CentOS project. Release Candidate 1 can now be tested. Contributors are required to contact using the communication options provided on this site.

• official address : https://rockylinux.org
• mirror download address : https://rockylinux.org/download

After such a long period of development and ups and downs, finally came, this time it really came.

In this way, the migrant worker also downloaded the official image file for the first time, and brought it together to try new things and experience a wave of installation.

The download address of the image file used in this article is as follows: https://download.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8.3/isos/x86_64/Rocky-8.3-x86_64-minimal.iso

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Select Install Rocky Linux 8 and press Enter directly

Choose a language

Choose installation location

Set admin password

start installation

Wait for the installation to complete and restart the system

System interface after restart

Enter the interface of the system

Below is the system interface with GUI interface

It is not difficult to install Rocky Linux 8. The specific steps and operations are no different from the previous CentOS 7 and 8. Interested readers can download the installation file to install and play on the virtual machine.

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

However, careful readers should have also noticed that the also has a red font prompt on the login interface: this version is not suitable for use in a production environment for the time being, So, you can install and experience it in the local environment.

If you want to transfer your production system to the Rocky Linux system in the future, this time period happens to be the best time to become familiar with this system.

Migrant workers, also very much look forward to Rocky Linux in the near future to bring us a good experience, or can directly replace CentOS in a real production environment.