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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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SmartOS

SmartOS is an open-source UNIX-like operating system based on illumos, a community fork of OpenSolaris. It features four technologies - ZFS (a combined file system and logical volume manager), DTrace (a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems), Zones (a lightweight virtualisation solution), KVM and bhyve (two full virtualisation solutions for running a variety of guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, BSD and Plan9).

Technical Specs Comparison
Rocky LinuxSmartOS
Fedora, Red HatBaseSolaris
flatpak, rpm (dnf)Package Managerpkgsrc
systemdInit Systemother
Fixed ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
9.8Latest Version
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
May 28, 2026Release DateJune 11, 2026
ARM64ppc64elRISC-Vs390xx86_64
Architecture
ARM64ppc64elRISC-Vs390xx86_64
GNOMENo Desktop
Desktops
GNOMENo Desktop