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Rocky Linux

Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is available for the x86_64 and AArch64 processor architectures.

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CentOS

CentOS as a group is a community of open source contributors and users which started in 2003 and has been sponsored by Red Hat since 2014. CentOS Linux versions up to CentOS Linux 8 are 100% compatible rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in full compliance with Red Hat's redistribution requirements.

Technical Specs Comparison
Rocky LinuxCentOS
Fedora, Red HatBaseFedora, Red Hat
flatpak, rpm (dnf)Package Managerdnf / flatpak, rpm
systemdInit Systemsystemd
Fixed ReleaseRelease ModelSemi-Rolling
9.8Latest Version10 Stream
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
May 28, 2026Release DateDecember 13, 2024
ARM64ppc64elRISC-Vs390xx86_64x86-64-v2
Architecture
ARM64ppc64elRISC-Vs390xx86_64x86-64-v2
GNOME
Desktops
GNOME