Rocky Linux 8.8 Available Now

Re:Rocky Linux 8.8 Available Now by ashvardanian on Friday May 19, 2023 @05:06PM (#36006840)

Looking at the release notes, it's still the Linux kernel 4.18, and for the upcoming 9.1 it is only 5.14. Are there any RHOS-like distros with recent kernels like 5.19 and 6+?

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Re:Rocky Linux 8.8 Available Now by prmoustache on Friday May 19, 2023 @05:09PM (#36006869)

If you want something much newer in the rpm/rh based world, you run Fedora.

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Re:Rocky Linux 8.8 Available Now by zokier on Friday May 19, 2023 @05:22PM (#36007003)

elrepo has lts and mainline kernel packages http://elrepo.org/tiki/HomePage#elrepo-kernel

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Re:Rocky Linux 8.8 Available Now by phendrenad2 on Friday May 19, 2023 @09:03PM (#36008462)

I don't think a newer kernel is needed in a server distro such as this.

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Re:Rocky Linux 8.8 Available Now by ch_123 on Saturday May 20, 2023 @04:50AM (#36010351)

You'll need to wait for RHEL 10 :)

It's worth noting that Red Hat backports newer hardware support and some functionality to its new kernels, so in practice it is not as out of date as the version may imply.

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Re:Rocky Linux 8.8 Available Now by realgmk on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @02:55PM (#36049059)

ELRepo has upstream kernels for all Enterprise Linux compatibles.

Also, the Rocky Linux SIG/Kernel group may even provide an alternative ISO(s) with those upstream kernels at periodic intervals. If you (or anyone else) is interested in helping with that, jump into https://chat.rockylinux.org and join that special interest group.

SHAMELESS PLUG: CIQ (my company) also has an upstream optimized kernel that we support provided via Mountain (our operating system delivery platform).

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