Once the ISO image is downloaded you have two options: Wget Step 2a: Create Bootable USB Stick (Physical machine installation) For servers you can use minimal, and DVD for installation on Laptop or Home Desktop computer.

Visit Rocky Linux 8 releases page and select the latest available ISO image – Minimal, DVD,īegin the download of Rocky Linux 8 by choosing DVD or Minimal ISO file. In this article we will cover a step-by-step installation of Rocky Linux 8.4 on a physical server, VirtualBox, VMware ESXi, VMware workstation, Xen or XCP-ng virtualization platform.

This could be your best bet if you need CentOS 8 alternative for running production workloads as at the moment. In our recent article we discussed installation of AlmaLinux OS 8, which is already in GA. As of this article writing, the available downloads are for release candidate not deemed fit for Production use. Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system with the vision of being 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8).

And thanks to the Open Source community which gave birth to Rocky Linux 8 operating system. It goes without saying that CentOS 8 support with full updates ends in December 31, 2021.

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