You can help Rocky and the Linux Hardware Project today by submitting a hardware probe. Report your submission to this post before 10/15 for a chance at winning swag to one of our merch shops! Details: https://docs.rockylinux.org/teams/testing/documentation/hardware/hardware_compat/

Rocky Linux is nothing without its community and contributors. This month we're taking a look at the Documentation team and all the excellent work they do, starting with Steven Spencer! Have a look: https://rockylinux.org/news/2026-08-25-contributor-spotlight-steven-spencer #linux #community #opensource

who up ponderin they orb

Tip of the day: The Antikythera mechanism is not a supported Rocky Linux architecture, for any version of Rocky Linux.

Ahoy, torrent fans! 🦜
If your torrent client supports RSS or an RSS plugin, you can help Rocky Linux by adding https://rockylinux.org/torrents.xml to your client's download feeds. This feed includes all currently supported Rocky Linux releases.

Help Rocky Linux manage torrents! If you have familiarity with torrent tooling and want a concrete, repeatable role in the Rocky Linux release process, we want to hear from you. https://rockylinux.org/news/2026-08-11-help-manage-rocky-linux-torrents #linux #opensource

Recent improvements to our build-to-staging pipeline has dramatically improved our compose time, saving hours of work and reducing errors. Check out how Jonathan Dieter, our engineering lead, did that here: https://rockylinux.org/news/2026-08-05-compose-improvements

went to the moon 🚀
yes, we remembered to bring a towel

went to the moon 🚀
yes, we remembered to bring a towel

As a result of recent improvements to our compose process, we've significantly reduced our build time. This allowed us to have a fix for CVE-2026-64531 less than 3 hours after the embargo was lifted. Thanks to Jonathan Dieter for his work and to CIQ who so quickly made this patch available to us! 🎊

Weekend challenge: spin up a service you've never run before on Rocky Linux.

Self-hosted password manager, monitoring stack, git server -- whatever's been on your list. What are you setting up?

#RockyLinux #Linux #HomeLab #SysAdmin