Rocky Linux

ICYMI: Fastly now offers free-forever #developer accounts ✨ read all about them: https://lnkd.in/e3gbNzwP We announced them last week, along with a slate of other dev-focused tools and features, in our first-ever keynote event. It was such a treat to cheer on my esteemable colleagues Journie M. Jenn Schiffer Simon Wistow Anil Dash Jesse von Doom and Matthew Tamayo as they announced all our awesome new stuff! You can read about those announcements here: https://lnkd.in/eMySS-P2 And finally, we snuck in a quick preview of news that I'm very excited to officially announce on Monday. In the meantime, check it out and stay tuned.... 👀 https://lnkd.in/eWAVRQKQ

I've been collaborating with the System Initiative team the last couple weeks on an exciting project: managing the Rocky Linux MirrorManager (https://lnkd.in/eYzie848). This service handles hundreds of millions of requests monthly, providing geo-local mirrors to Rocky users worldwide. We'll be managing the entire lifecycle of MirrorManager with SI including compute, load balancing, CDN (Fastly), and integrating with Ansible for configuration management. System Init is a *highly* compelling tool. If you've ever felt like Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, etc., are missing something, check out SI.

We are honored to announce that Rocky Linux has been recognized by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) as a Digital Public Good. This recognition reflects our community's commitment to open source principles and service to the common good by providing a sustainable, community-driven Enterprise Linux distribution. https://buff.ly/3RfUeLc

Great news for one of the first, most enthusiastic sponsors of the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation. Welcome to the US, 45 Drives! https://buff.ly/3Rtewkl @45-drives

Fastly has supported the Rocky Linux project since the beginning. Over the last year they have served up more than 1.5 BILLION monthly requests for us for free, as part of their open source mission. And NOW, Fastly has a free tier! Sign up: https://buff.ly/3z0Ktu6  Wondering what "serving up more than 1.5 billion requests" means? It definitely doesn't mean burgers, but it does mean good things for anyone engaging with Rocky Linux online! Fastly curates a global farm of servers that cache Rocky Linux content, keeping it closer to you wherever in the world you are. When you request to access a page or image, the data is closer to you, so it has less distance to travel before you can access it. Now imagine with us for a moment, a product that not only makes you look like an ever-ready rockstar, but the people creating that product are committed to your mission, and enthusiastic about helping you....that's Fastly. If you like fast loading times, and also value the values behind a company, we recommend you check out Fastly and all the exciting ways they contribute to excellence in the tech world and more. https://buff.ly/3z0Ktu6  https://buff.ly/3z0Ktu6  https://buff.ly/3z0Ktu6  #fastly #freetier #rockylinux

Hello, North Carolina! We are in Charlotte this weekend for SouthEast LinuxFest. Fun to be back here in the tech corridor, meeting up with Linux enthusiasts from the region. We've got several speakers from our group this time around, starting with Louis, sharing a retrospective of Rocky Linux 8, and Neil, showcasing the official Rocky special interest groups. Stop by our table if you're in the area this weekend! #rockycommunity @selinuxfest @neilhanlon

We are proud to announce that the Digital Public Goods Alliance has recognized Rocky Linux as a Digital Public Good, alongside other incredible #opensource projects working to achieve the United Nations #SDGs! Read the announcement in the link:

Rocky Linux 8.10 is available now! This is the last planned minor version of Rocky Linux 8, and will be supported until 2029. Plenty of time to start planning your upgrades to 9! Read the release announcement at https://buff.ly/4e55yn8

Don't forget to grab your tickets for @fedora's 40 Release Party! Join us online next Friday 24th and Saturday 25th—it's free! :tada: Get your tickets at . Lots of us from the RockyLinux Team will be there too! #ELcommunity #RockyLinux

Rocky Linux 9.4 is here! Available for x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. Check out the release notes for new features and changes. Thanks to all contributors. #RockyLinux #ELCommunity #NewRelease https://buff.ly/4aa30Rn