Audience

HPC Managers, Linux Software Engineers, C-Suite Executive

About Rocky Linux

CIQ empowers people to do amazing things by providing innovative and stable software infrastructure solutions for all computing needs. From the base operating system, through containers, orchestration, provisioning, computing, and cloud applications, CIQ works with every part of the technology stack to drive solutions for customers and communities with stable, scalable, secure production environments. CIQ is the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux, and the creator of the next generation federated computing stack.

- Rocky Linux, open, Secure Enterprise Linux

- Apptainer, application Containers for High Performance Computing

- Warewulf, cluster Management and Operating System Provisioning

- HPC2.0, the Next Generation of High Performance Computing, a Cloud Native Federated Computing Platform

- Traditional HPC, turnkey computing stack for traditional HPC

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Overall 2.0 / 5
ease 1.0 / 5
features 1.0 / 5
design 1.0 / 5
support 2.0 / 5
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Company Information

Ctrl IQ, Inc.
Founded: 2020
United States
ciq.co/rocky-linux/

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Rocky Linux Product Features

Application Server

Admin Console
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Application Security
Multi-Application Support
Multiple Environment Support
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HPC

Rocky Linux Verified User Reviews

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  • Kevin H.
    Technical Analyst
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1 - 25
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    "Trying something other than Slackware, this was horrible"

    Posted 2025-12-15

    Pros: It installs? Maybe it's easy if you installed all of it, so that it automatically takes you to the GUI with the first boot. I did the minimal install OS on a DVD.

    Cons: If you get the base OS version, you can't do squat. It's all locked down, even denying permissions to root. And support is very slim compared to Slackware. On Slackware's page, it has tons of basics and step by step instructions for doing things. It's fully operating, running dhclient to get an IP address, while you try that with Rocky, it says command not found, as it does on almost everything. Don't try Xorg -config because, guess what? Command not found. It's raring to go with Slackware, it all WORKS. And I know because I've been using it for more than 15 years. I suppose if you loaded All of Rocky it would work, the full install. But it's apparently ALL or NOTHING with Rocky Linux.

    Overall: Bad compared to Slackware. You can't do anything with the minimal install. It's like everything is set to "noexec".

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