I would like to know how many people and which companies are currently using the Rocky Linux operating system, as well as in which companies and for what applications Rocky Linux is used.
I Can’t fully answer but I can give some idea of the repartition between Enterprise Linux family distribution (from my repo download stat)
- 3/10 for RockyLInux
- 3/10 for AlmaLinux
- 2/10 for CentOS Stream
- 1/10 for RHEL
Rocky Linux is the by-far most used operating system for VFX rendering for cinema, i.e. special effects and animation in movies.
You can read more here: VFX Reference Platform: Linux in VFX
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My experience is that all customer ( or in-house projects) that use RHEL on production servers have a small or large setup using old non-stream CentOS or Rocky to have a RHEL-like system without extra costs. My current project has a huge backlog of CentOS 7 machines that they urgently have to replace with Rocky Linux ( if you want to do it fast. If you want to do it slow you ask for a budget to buy even more RHEL licences and that will delay the progress for a few more months …).
We are currently in the process of technical selection to evaluate the usability and stability of Rocky Linux. First, we need to know how many companies have adopted Rocky. What we need is specific data, i.e., how many individuals are currently using this system.
Could you please provide us with some relevant release data or backend data?
We are planning to use Rocky Linux in a production environment, not just for video-related tasks.
There is no way to know that.
Rocky Linux is a free operating system so anyone and everyone can download it and install it on as many computers as he likes, and give it to as many other people as he wishes.
There’s no licensing authority so there’s nobody to count either sites or installations.
We are currently in the process of technical selection to evaluate the usability and stability of Rocky Linux.
It’s about as usable and stable as equivalent RedHat Enterprise Linux distribution. The devil is in the details, though. If you can provide some info about your selection criteria, I’m sure people share will experiences. Are you looking to use Rocky for server or workstation purposes?
First, we need to know how many companies have adopted Rocky.
I doubt you’ll get reliable data for this from any forum or even the Rocky distribution maintainers.
What we need is specific data, i.e., how many individuals are currently using this system.
This is an underdefined question:
- How many concurrent users on a single shared server? (which would mean you’re evaluating scalability potential).
- How many separate users using Rocky as a single-user workstation deployments (which would mean you are evaluating ease-of-use and IT supportability within an organization).
Indeed. We had CentOS 7 on 20 graphics workstations (using cinnamon desktop) and 20 bare-metal VFX render workers and I’ve migrated all of them to Rocky 9 now. The workstations have consumer Nvidia GPUs (RTX 3060 up to RTX 4090) and they’re all chugging along nicely.
“Production” can be anything, it does not tell about the needs. Furthermore, does one start from scratch, or has one had some other platform before? It is very natural for people to compare, but anything is “best thing ever” if there was nothing before.
Men’s Shed file server: I’ve chosen Rocky as it’s more in the Enterprize style.
Replacing Ubuntu. We also run a simple accounting package on Linux and,
on another box a webSDR. And, at my home of course.
During usage, I also feel that it is relatively stable. However, I now need evidence to convince my leaders and colleagues because we may need to use this operating system together. Therefore, we cannot rely on subjective judgment to determine whether it is stable or usable—we need data to support our decision.
What I’m mainly interested in is which applications from which companies are using its deployment environment, rather than the specific number of users. I have found similar reports on some websites, but they do not mention Rocky Linux.
Could you please provide some usage screenshots? Although we understand this might seem impolite, we would like to see how Rocky performs in different environments.
By production environment, we mean various systems used for production, such as ERP, MES, WMS, and similar systems. Of course, many of our systems are currently deployed on RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu. If we need to migrate to Rocky, we must demonstrate that it is a stable, secure, and efficient system.
If I want to convince my colleagues and leaders to use this system, I cannot rely on my subjective judgment to make the case. I must provide evidence to support my argument.
What I’m mainly interested in is which applications from which companies are using its deployment environment, rather than the specific number of users. I have found similar reports on some websites, but they do not mention Rocky Linux.
This simply isn’t possible. Even with our logs of what hits our mirror list servers, that doesn’t tell the whole story. It does not account for those using local mirrors and it does not account for those going through a single NAT gateway.
I’m not really sure you’re going to get the data or answers to your questions here. There’s no guarantee that a company or enterprise representative is going to be at these forums to give you the type of details you seek.
Perhaps instead of just “usage data”, you also add what’s in our wiki and how we’ve done our releases. Example, check out our current supported releases and view the release dates.
Also see our general update timeline.
Our releases go through thorough testing from our Testing Team via OpenQA and other means.
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What you are asking for most companies would consider proprietary information. Especially in this environment of widespread hacking and stealing of company information, few companies will want to divulge details for what applications they are using and for what purposes. That information just helps those who are trying to break into their corporate systems.
Good luck to you.
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My sentiments exactly. I’m certainly not going to divulge what distributions I am using and what applications I am running on them. And I don’t expect other people as well.
Basically, if the information provided in this thread is not enough for you to convince you, then perhaps you should be choosing something else to use instead. I personally don’t care what other people are running. I run what Linux distribution does the best job for me and also makes my life easier.