CentOS Stand-in Rocky Linux Becomes a Ready-for-Prime-Time Player

Rocky Linux, one of the new Linux distributions that are designed to be drop-in replacements for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone, CentOS, announced Monday that it’s ready for prime time with its first stable release. The distribution is starting life as version 8.4, following CentOS’ convention of numbering itself after the version of RHEL it replaces.