Tag: Linux

After CentOS: Rocky Linux and the Ecosystem You're Actually Building On

CentOS used to be the obvious answer. If you needed enterprise Linux without the enterprise price tag, you ran CentOS. It tracked Red Hat Enterprise Linux closely, carried a long support lifecycle, and was stable enough that people built production infrastructure on it without much second-guessing. That era ended in

Before the First Boot: The Rocky Linux Decisions That Shape Everything After

Rocky Linux is chosen. The architecture case has been made — RHEL compatibility, career skill alignment, a community-governed distribution on solid footing. That decision is behind you. What's ahead is a thirty-minute installer conversation with Anaconda that will determine the shape of this machine for as long as it

Rocky Linux 9 Fresh Install: Every Anaconda Decision That Matters

The Anaconda installer presents everything at once — a summary screen full of spokes, each hiding a decision. Some have safe defaults. Several don't. The ones that don't are the ones that break quietly: a root partition that fills in three weeks, SELinux that gets disabled on