#### Announcing support for Rocky Linux 8. 3 Release Candidate

> Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with America's top enterprise Linux distribution now that its downstream partner has shifted direction

Announcing support for Rocky Linux 8.3 Release Candidate


#### Announcing support for Rocky Linux 8.3 Release Candidate

> Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with America's top enterprise Linux distribution now that its downstream partner has shifted direction. It is under intensive development by the community. Rocky Linux is led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project. Release Candidate 1 is now available for testing. Contributors are asked to reach out using the communication options offered on this site.
> -- *rockylinux.org*

Rocky Linux released their first release candidate earlier today, and we're excited to announce that it is now a supported distribution to deploy on aarch64.com!

<img src="../thumbnails/rocky-vm.png" alt="Rocky Linux on aarch64">
<pre>Rocky Linux on aarch64</pre>
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Not that it is a *release candidate*, not a stable production release, so it is intended to be used for testing only.

<img src="../thumbnails/rocky-deploy.png" alt="Creating a Rocky Linux aarch64 VM">
<pre>Creating a Rocky Linux aarch64 VM</pre>
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If you're interested in trying Rocky Linux on aarch64 (or any other distro for that matter), please reach out!
