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Community Linux

Rocky, Alma and Debian: when the budget counts — with the awareness of what you give up, and a plan B ready.

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01 · What it is

Rebuild e community, made clear.

Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux and Debian run half the internet: solid, free, compatible (the rebuilds) with the RHEL world. In the company they have their place — development environments, internal workloads, large non-critical estates — as long as the choice is conscious: no vendor SLAs, patches from the community, and the compliance to build on your own.

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the fee that isn't there: on the big numbers, it weighs
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Rocky/Alma binary-compatible with RHEL: the migration (both ways) easy
Community
the patches arrive — without a contract: the difference to understand
Rebuild e community
OFFICIAL LINUX BRANDING · COMMUNITY LINUX
INTERFACCIA REALE · INSTALLER ROCKY LINUX · FONTE: ROCKY DOCS
REAL INTERFACE · ROCKY LINUX INSTALLER · SOURCE: ROCKY DOCS
02 · How to use it well

The things that make the difference.

The honest map

The workload to servecritical or internal?
Dev & test
Non-critical internal
Critical production
community ok · evaluate · enterprise
Our support on topthe SLA we put in
Convert2RHEL / migrationsplan B, always ready
Free where it makes sense, guaranteed where needed

The workloads' classification

What can live on community and what can't: the map by criticality, not by habit.

The support we put in

YoctoIT patching, hardening and monitoring on the rebuilds: the community with an SLA on top.

CentOS: the lesson

Those who were there remember 2020: the exit strategy (toward Rocky/Alma or RHEL) written from day one.

DIY compliance

CIS and evidence even without a vendor: the open tools, our method.

03 · In depth

Open source governance: use, contribute, count

Open source in the company must be governed: the dependencies' inventory (SBOM: you know what runs), the licenses respected (GPL, Apache, MIT: different obligations), the supported versions (the EOL community doesn't patch), the upstream relationship (the bugs reported, the patches contributed: the company that counts in the communities it depends on); the distro choice is strategy: RHEL/SLES for the support, Ubuntu for the rhythm, Debian/Alpine for the sobriety — and plan B always ready.

  • SBOM — the software's bill of materials: the dependencies known, the log4shell found right away
  • Compliance licenze — GPL and derivatives respected: the legal team at ease
  • EOL watch — the community versions expire: the calendar watched
  • Upstream first — the patches contributed: the private fork is a debt
  • Multi-distro — the choice by use case: no dogma, a plan B
  • Security response — the supply chain's CVEs: the reaction process ready
04 · Numbers and lifecycle

The numbers that matter.

100%
of the dependencies inventoried with SBOMs
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private forks: the upstream as strategy
CRA
the Cyber Resilience Act: the regulated supply chain is coming
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the longevity of well-governed open source
Open source is a supply chain: inventory, licenses and plans B — the governance we set up.
05 · Use cases

Where it really pays off.

Large estates

Web farms and internal nodes: the savings that add up.

Development and test

The minor environments, free and aligned.

Budgets under pressure

The community/enterprise mix designed with numbers.

Free Linux costs attention: we put it in — and plan B is already written.