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The New TuxCare Enterprise Support: Premium Coverage for AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux

I wrote this for TuxCare to announce that Enterprise Support, formerly scoped to AlmaLinux, now covers Rocky Linux too. Most enterprises I talk to run more than one distro, so I wanted to lay out why community support alone rarely covers what 24x7, regulated workloads actually need.

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A few things I wanted people to walk away with:

  • Multi-distro estates are the norm now. AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux are the leading CentOS successors, and TES now covers both under one contract and SLA instead of juggling separate vendors.
  • Community support has real gaps for enterprises. It doesn’t provide 24x7 production response, FIPS-validated builds, FedRAMP-aligned workflows, or lifecycle coverage well beyond community end of life.
  • It’s a foundation, not a lock-in. TES pairs with the wider portfolio, from ELS to KernelCare, so you extend your open-source stack without getting trapped in a proprietary subscription.

The goal was a secure, compliant footing on the community distro you already run, without giving up the freedom that made you choose it.