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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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Mageia

Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux formed in September 2010 by former employees and contributors to the popular French Linux distribution. Unlike Mandriva, which is a commercial entity, Mageia is a community project and a non-profit organisation whose goal is to develop a free Linux-based operating system.

Technical Specs Comparison
Rocky LinuxMageia
Fedora, Red HatBaseIndependent
flatpak, rpm (dnf)Package Managerdnf, urpmi
systemdInit Systemsystemd
Fixed ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
9.8Latest Version9
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
May 28, 2026Release DateAugust 27, 2023
ARM64ppc64elRISC-Vs390xx86_64ARMv7i686
Architecture
ARM64ppc64elRISC-Vs390xx86_64ARMv7i686
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