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Rocky Linux, the Glossary

Rocky Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, which is a privately owned benefit corporation that describes itself as a "self-imposed not-for-profit".^[1]

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AArch64

AArch64 or ARM64 is the 64-bit Execution state of the ARM architecture family.

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AlmaLinux is a free and open source Linux distribution, developed by the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, a 501(c) organization, to provide a community-supported, production-grade enterprise operating system that is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux are enterprise Linux distributions, Linux distributions, RPM-based Linux distributions and x86-64 Linux distributions.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Bash (Unix shell)

Bash, short for Bourne-Again SHell, is a shell program and command language supported by the Free Software Foundation and first developed for the GNU Project by Brian Fox.

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Benefit corporation

In business, and only in United States corporate law, a benefit corporation (or in some states, a public benefit corporation) is a type of for-profit corporate entity whose goals include making a positive impact on society.

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Binary-code compatibility

Binary-code compatibility (binary compatible or object-code compatible) is a property of a computer system, meaning that it can run the same executable code, typically machine code for a general-purpose computer central processing unit (CPU), that another computer system can run.

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BSD licenses

BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software.

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CentOS

CentOS (from Community Enterprise Operating System; also known as CentOS Linux) is a discontinued Linux distribution that provided a free and open-source community-supported computing platform, functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Rocky Linux and CentOS are enterprise Linux distributions, Linux distributions, RPM-based Linux distributions and x86-64 Linux distributions.

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CentOS Stream

CentOS Stream is a community enterprise Linux distribution that exists as a midstream between the upstream development in Fedora Linux and the downstream development for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Rocky Linux and CentOS Stream are enterprise Linux distributions, Linux distributions, RPM-based Linux distributions and x86-64 Linux distributions.

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Deployment environment

In software deployment, an environment or tier is a computer system or set of systems in which a computer program or software component is deployed and executed.

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Desktop computer

A desktop computer (often abbreviated desktop) is a personal computer designed for regular use at a stationary location on or near a desk (as opposed to a portable computer) due to its size and power requirements.

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DNF (software)

DNF or Dandified YUM is the next-generation version of the Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum), a package manager for.rpm-based Linux distributions.

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Downstream (software development)

In software development, downstream refers to a direction away from the original authors or maintainers of software that is distributed as source code, and is a qualification of a patch.

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Endianness

''Gulliver's Travels'' by Jonathan Swift, the novel from which the term was coined In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word of digital data are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed (by rising addresses) in computer memory, counting only byte significance compared to earliness.

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Fedora Linux

Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. Rocky Linux and Fedora Linux are Linux distributions, RPM-based Linux distributions and x86-64 Linux distributions.

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Flatpak

Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux.

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GitHub

GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.

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GNOME

GNOME, originally an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

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GNOME Shell

GNOME Shell is the graphical shell of the GNOME desktop environment starting with version 3, which was released on April 6, 2011.

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GNOME Software

GNOME Software is a utility for installing applications and updates on Linux.

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GNU Core Utilities

The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems.

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IBM Z

IBM Z is a family name used by IBM for all of its z/Architecture mainframe computers.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Linux distribution

A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and often a package management system. Rocky Linux and Linux distribution are Linux distributions.

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Linux kernel

The Linux kernel is a free and open source, UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide.

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Linux on IBM Z

Linux on IBM Z or Linux on zSystems is the collective term for the Linux operating system compiled to run on IBM mainframes, especially IBM Z / IBM zSystems and IBM LinuxONE servers. Rocky Linux and Linux on IBM Z are Linux distributions.

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Monolithic kernel

A monolithic kernel is an operating system architecture with the entire operating system running in kernel space.

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Open source

Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution.

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Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux (abbreviated OL, formerly known as Oracle Enterprise Linux or OEL) is a Linux distribution packaged and freely distributed by Oracle, available partially under the GNU General Public License since late 2006. Rocky Linux and Oracle Linux are enterprise Linux distributions, Linux distributions, RPM-based Linux distributions and x86-64 Linux distributions.

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PowerPC

PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM.

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Ppc64

ppc64 is an identifier commonly used within the GNU/Linux, GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and LLVM free software communities to refer to the target architecture for applications optimized for 64-bit big-endian PowerPC and Power ISA processors.

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Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial open-source Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market. Rocky Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are enterprise Linux distributions, Linux distributions, RPM-based Linux distributions and x86-64 Linux distributions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Linux

Also known as Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, Rockylinux.org.

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Enterprise Linux distributions

RPM-based Linux distributions

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