Q&A with the Rocky Linux Team

Rocky Linux Team Leads assemble to answer any questions you may have.
Timestamps

00:00:53 Jordan | Community
00:01:47 Introductions
00:01:49: Greg | Leadership
00:02:36 Leigh | Leadership
00:03:13 Neil | Infrastructure
00:03:43 Taylor (in spirit) | Infrastructure
00:03:52 Rob | Security
00:04:06 Ben | Security
00:04:28 Hayden | Web
00:04:52 Wale | Documentation
00:07:40 If I’m running CentOS8 right now will there be a clear migration path to Rocky Linux 8?
00:09:59 What kind of support cycle can we expect from Rocky Linux?
00:12:00 Developer Contribution Model
00:13:28 What are the differences between the forums and Mattermost?
00:15:35 Are those branded T-shirts staff only?
00:17:22 What are the biggest challenges that the RESF have had to overcome?
00:36:31 Will a testing release be made available?
00:42:43 Explaining the importance of the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
00:44:40 Will Rocky Linux always be free?
00:46:17 Is there a planned release cadence?
00:47:21 What you think of ARM Linux devices such as the Librum 5, PinePhone, and PineBook Pro. Would you be willing to adapt Rocky to ARM someday?
00:50:28: More on architectures
00:54:27 What architectures will be targeted initially? In particular I’m curious about PowerPC
00:55:54 Is Rocky Linux a drop-in replacement for CentOS?
00:56:35 How much time do you plan to support an LTS version?
00:57:31 When is the EOL for Rocky Linux 8? (00:57:30 May 31, 2029)
00:58:31 Is the turnaround time for upstream security updates still 24-48 hours?

01:02:00 What are the most serious "competitors" to the Rocky Linux initiative and, if any, is there any outreach to consolidate?
01:02:00 Leigh
01:03:44 Ben
01:06:30 Rob
01:07:25 Audience
01:07:50 Greg with more on alternatives and Open Source

01:11:02 Sponsors and Partners
01:11:41 Cloud & Hyperscalers
01:12:24 Ben on the Beauty of Open Source

01:13:37 Additional Introductions
01:13:45 Mustafa
01:15:47 Brian

01:16:37 How about OpenSCAP profiles for Rocky Linux? Do you have any plans for that? Making Rocky Linux more suitable for companies that are under PCI, HIPAA, CIS, and of those types of compliances?
01:19:07 What licensing issues in particular that were mentioned will present difficulties during the migration from RHEL 8 to Rocky 9?
01:19:44 How did you come up with the name Rocky Linux?
01:25:16 Will Rocky Linux remain free for good? Can the user assume and really use Rocky Linux without the need to worry about migrating to some other system in the future like we have to right now?
01:26:22 Will Rocky Linux be able to directly update from CentOS 7?
01:28:56 Will there be a Rocky Linux 7?
01:30:10 “Let’s make a promise to truly make Rocky Linux a community linux, and never make the same mistakes again”
01:34:50 Will there be scripts to move from RHEL/Oracle Linux/CentOS/etc to Rocky?
01:36:26 Red Hat has a repo for kernel-rt. I’ve seen prior mention of a SIG, but didn’t know if this would be in a Rocky repo since it’s just a debrand/recompile from git.centos.org.... and is currently in a Red Hat repo. Has this been considered?
01:37:46 Any chance of a utility for easily installing and configuring Nvidia drivers for us desktop users?
01:42:43 Is there any plan Rocky Linux trademark guideline for third parties?
01:43:41 Will Rocky Linux come with and support SELinux profiles that are PoLP but compatible with containerd/Docker?
01:45:07 Would RockyLinux be reaching out to different vendors like HP for MapR installation and validation, or would it be on those vendors to test?
01:46:04 What is EDA? (Electronic design automation)
01:47:30 What are the plans for Rocky and HPC?
01:49:28 Any target date for the start of packaging efforts? When would the build infrastructure be complete?
01:52:29 As there are many users that rely on CentOS currently for web hosting environments, wondering if any of the major players in control panels (cPanel/DirectAdmin for example) have reached out to Rocky? (No)
01:53:15 What if Red Hat moved to make sources unavailable?
01:55:04 What if the changes to CentOS were reverted?

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