How about we start a thread for all of us newer folks on the forums?
Drop a reply and introduce yourself. Tell us what brought you to Rocky Linux, what you do for work, and what you get up to when you’re not staring at a terminal.
Not sure what to share? Here are a few prompts to get you started:
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Where are you based? (As specific or vague as you like.)
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How did you find Rocky Linux? Migrating from CentOS, a colleague’s recommendation, a late-night rabbit hole?
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What do you run it on? Home lab, production servers, a dusty box under your desk?
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What do you do outside of Linux? Gaming, cooking, hiking, other forms of chaos?
No wrong answers. No need to be an expert. Whether you’ve been running Rocky since day one or just spun up your first VM last week, you belong here.
I’m Eric “the IT Guy” Hendricks. I have been around the Open Source community since about 2015. I was born and raised in Kansas City (in the United States). When I am not computer-ing, I like reading books, exploring whiskeys, and playing D&D!
I’ve watched Rocky Linux grow from its inception. I’m in the process of moving my home lab servers to Rocky Linux on top of Proxmox. I am volunteering on the Community team here with the project.
Feel free to reach out to me just about anywhere, I’m @ itguyeric on most platforms!
My name is Frank Cox, I own and operate the Melville Theatre in Melville Saskatchewan Canada.
I’ve been playing with computers for over 50 years, so I guess that makes me an old coot.
I used to do a fair bit of consulting and programming/automation for various industries (mostly applications for oil rigs and surveying instruments) and more recently for commercial printing and press automation, with a few detours along the way. A program that I wrote around 1981 to operate a water vending machine (for filling large tanker trucks) is still running unchanged to this day, though the hardware has changed several times over the years, so some of my stuff tends to stick around for quite a while. I’ve pretty much wound that stuff down now, though if something really interesting comes along I’ll probably look at it.
And I write hardboiled detective stories. You can download some of them here: