I’ve been experimenting with the recent enterprise release for RockyLinux.
New Builds:
I’ve had no issues using my existing CentOS 8 kickstart configuration files for Rocky Linux. The only thing that had to change was the package source.
Upgrading – I’ve only tried this once. I have a laptop that had CentOS 8 installed. I tried the update method found here: https://lnkd.in/dJ7Xf2f however, the migrate2rocky.sh script failed when trying to update VLC Media Player. It left me in a state where I was running the CentOS Kernel, but a lot of the Rocky Linux updates were installed. The fix was to “dnf update –exclude=vlc* –skip-broken –nobest”. After doing this I was able to boot to a fully functioning Rocky Linux system. I haven’t encountered any further issues. The problem was related to the the ffmpeg packages that are not generally available in the CentOS or Rocky Linux repositories.
My next steps will include testing Solarflare and Infiniband drivers as well as OpenOnload for bypassing the TCP stack. I’ll keep you posted on my progress.
