# The usage situation of Rocky Linux **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [February 5, 2025, 9:05am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439 "2025-02-05T09:05:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ya.zhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/45deac/32.png) [@ya.zhu](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/ya.zhu)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 9:04am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/21 "2025-02-07T09:04:37Z")
Thank you very much for your reply. As we are currently in the process of technical selection to choose the Linux operating system we will use next, the data might just be one way for me to validate Rocky. After all, the more companies that use it, the higher the recognition of this operating system. However, my ultimate goal is to convince my colleagues and leaders that this operating system is stable, efficient, and highly compatible. Therefore, could you please help provide such evidence? For example, does our Rocky release undergo testing? Are there any corresponding test reports, such as functional testing, application testing, etc.? Thank you again for your response. ---
**Author:** ![ya.zhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/45deac/32.png) [@ya.zhu](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/ya.zhu)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 9:11am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/22 "2025-02-07T09:11:48Z")
Yes, I completely agree with your perspective. However, if I want to convince my colleagues and leaders to choose the Rocky operating system, aside from data, what other approaches can I use to persuade them? For example, if I wanted to convince a friend to buy a product from a company, I might tell them that many people have purchased it or that the product has received great reviews. Similarly, if I want to demonstrate that Rocky is a good choice, I can’t just rely on my personal opinion that it’s a great system—I need evidence to prove that it’s an excellent system. Could you help me think about what kind of reasoning or approach I should use to make this argument? ---
**Author:** ![ya.zhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/45deac/32.png) [@ya.zhu](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/ya.zhu)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 9:15am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/23 "2025-02-07T09:15:45Z")
I completely agree with your perspective. However, if I want to convince my colleagues and leaders to choose the Rocky operating system, aside from data, what other approaches can I use to persuade them? For example, if I wanted to convince a friend to buy a product from a company, I might tell them that many people have purchased it or that the product has received great reviews. Similarly, if I want to demonstrate that Rocky is a good choice, I can’t just rely on my personal opinion that it’s a great system—I need evidence to prove that it’s an excellent system. Could you help me think about what kind of reasoning or approach I should use to make this argument? ---
**Author:** ![iwalker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/iwalker/32/2599_2.png) [@iwalker](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/iwalker)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/24 "2025-02-07T09:30:20Z")
> [@ya.zhu](#): > > However, if I want to convince my colleagues and leaders to choose the Rocky operating system, aside from data, what other approaches can I use to persuade them? This is your problem not mine or anyone elses. I don’t need such data to convince anyone why we need to use Rocky. > [@ya.zhu](#): > > However, my ultimate goal is to convince my colleagues and leaders that this operating system is stable, efficient, and highly compatible. Therefore, could you please help provide such evidence? Rocky is based on RHEL, and you should already know that RHEL is stable. So if RHEL is stable, then so is Rocky. Sounds like you want us all to do your job for you and do all the work finding and providing information to convince you or your company why they should be using Rocky. I think you are being totally unreasonable in all the requests for information you are making. If people don’t want to provide it for security reasons, then you have to accept that. You won’t be getting any usage information, statistics or anything from me personally. I doubt anyone else will want to give you that data either, due to confidentiality. Respect that decision. If others want to give it then that is up to them. But again, it’s **your** responsibility to convince your companycolleagues, not us. ---
**Author:** ![jlehtone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jlehtone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jlehtone)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/25 "2025-02-07T11:13:09Z")
> [@ya.zhu](#): > > various systems used for production, such as ERP, MES, WMS, and similar systems. I can tell that I have never heard of any of those, so don’t know what is similar either. * * * Rather than looking at who is using Rocky, you could check what your applications say. As example, a commercial application used by us that has Linux, Mac, and Windows versions, says now: > ### Linux Supported Operating Systems > > - RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.8, 8.10, 9.2, 9.4 > - Rocky Linux 8.8, 8.10, 9.2, 9.4 > - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, and 24.04 > > #### Timeline > > We aim to provide support for new operating system versions **6** **months** after their public release. > Support cannot be provided once an OS platform version has reached “end of life” (EOL). Check with your platform provider for EOL information. That shows that this particular vendor dares to support their product on Rocky. If your applications have similar pledges, then Rocky is a reliable platform for you, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/26 "2025-02-07T12:20:01Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/2X/6/6a501363670f0f4b71a5db57b36d56b794cb7443.png) Rocky Linux is the most used Enterprise Linux variant, by far. Charts for this are available at [Rocky Linux Statistics](https://rocky-stats.tiuxo.com/auto.html). These charts are based off of the DNF countme data submitted by users of Fedora’s EPEL repository, and are automatically compiled weekly from an [open source Jupyter notebook](https://github.com/brianclemens/rocky-stats). As for an actual total of Rocky Linux instances, that’s impossible to measure because not every Rocky Linux user connects to Rocky Linux services, some have countme disabled, etc. I recently started working on processing our CDN logs to make a decent guess of that, but I’m currently stalled while I wait for more storage to arrive (due to the logs being about 1.2 TB / month). As for “which companies”, attempting to derive that from our logs would be a violation of our privacy policy. So we only know about companies that have published it themselves. However, that includes many notable users, like NASA, the US DoD, Google, Toyota, Rakuten, many universities, etc. ---
**Author:** ![guyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@guyr](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/guyr)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/27 "2025-02-08T13:17:54Z")
As others have said, Rocky _is_ RHEL. From the Rocky Linux home page: “Rocky Linux is an open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux”. So, show your colleagues whatever points you need to make the corresponding RHEL bullet points. Here is a gift from the Fedora EPEL Project: > **[CIQ | Tracking Rocky Linux Growth Using Fedora’s EPEL Project](https://ciq.com/blog/tracking-rocky-linux-growth-using-fedoras-epel-project/)** > > Rocky Linux is among the most frequently adopted Linux distributions now that CentOS 8 has been end-of-lifed. According to the latest metrics gathered by the Fedora infrastructure and presented by the… ---
**Author:** ![tunaboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@tunaboy](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/tunaboy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/28 "2025-02-08T18:44:25Z")
My take here: “Bug for Bug compatible”. I don’t think that’s changed. I have RHEL systems I interact with and I run Rocky systems. Seems completely accurate statement. I watched us move from other non-RHEL systems to RHEL, and I do like RHEL (but that is because I made that choice decades ago now based on security criterion at the time). If it made economic sense, and I was in the “decider” position of an external entity(comany, etc.), my first cut would be RHEL, because then I have a contract, and can call and put in a complaint, get it fixed. We’re paying you, you do your job. It’s now IBM, so “deep pockets”. I was in the position where that wasn’t our decision criterion, and we did need stable, secure and widely used systems. At that point we went with Centos, and it did work, and we were able to leverage software from similar systems. Worked really well till upper management “saved money”, and the systems went away. Reality intruded. My 2cents (worth all you paid for it) ---
**Author:** ![dannyw99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@dannyw99](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/dannyw99)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/29 "2025-02-10T13:10:34Z")
This page has an even newer usage chart (Sep 2024) which shows it really starting to take off. > **[CIQ | Founding Story of CIQ](https://ciq.com/company/founding-story/)** > > CIQ’s day-to-day work and culture are shaped by the core values of the open source community. Find what CIQ values as far as business and culture. ---
**Author:** ![kfoster17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@kfoster17](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/kfoster17)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/30 "2025-02-11T20:53:36Z")
I don’t know about others but we’re moving from CentOS7 (yeah I’m running behind) to Rocky 8. Running 8 virtual domains on a linode box. So far in testing phase and it’s decent - I trust it. ---
**Author:** ![Odddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ee7513/32.png) [@Odddave](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/Odddave)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/31 "2025-02-11T22:01:22Z")
I use Linux because Windows obsoleted my 12 year old x86 PC. I chose Rocky because that is what Black Magic Design distributed their video editing suite Davinci Resolve/Studio with. This was back when CentOS 7 was the main RHEL clone distro. Today I’m running Rocky 9.5. Davinci Studio has gained acceptance in Hollywood post houses mainly for its color correction prowess and network integration to support collaborative workspaces. Blockbuster credit rolls now include all the people that worked in the films IT departments. I’d bet most of them are RHEL/Rocky certified. ---
**Author:** ![jmmodran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/jmmodran/32/5121_2.png) [@jmmodran](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jmmodran)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 7:13am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/32 "2025-02-12T07:13:11Z")
Rocky Linux is replacing 20 CentOS7 and ~6 CentOS6 servers. They are a mix of development, test, and production servers for ERP, web services, and HA Cluster MySQL 8.0. The OS is stable and a natural continuation of CentOS. ---
**Author:** ![TwoXTwentyOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@TwoXTwentyOne](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/TwoXTwentyOne)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/33 "2025-02-16T23:20:51Z")
Bro is Chinese and data mining, I’d advise not giving him anything, all his texts are AI generated lol ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-usage-situation-of-rocky-linux/17439/34 "2025-04-17T23:21:43Z")
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