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CIQ
Company blog · ciq.com/blogsystemsprogramming
CIQ is the company blog at ciq.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2023, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
CIQ's pages on Rocky Linux support tiers, Warewulf support, the Rocky Linux EULA, the company founding story, and a whitepaper on vendor kernel stability. Comments cite these as sources or mention support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
CIQ is the founding commercial sponsor of Rocky Linux, building the full stack for sovereign AI: RLC Pro, the CIQ Linux Kernel, Warewulf, and Fuzzball.
Most-linked posts?
- /support/rocky-linux/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-22
- Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-16
- History Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-04
What Hacker News says?
And if you want to pay for support you can reach out to CIQ https://ciq.com/products/warewulf/
Comment linking /products/warewulf/
on “Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container OS provisioning system”Submitted Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened as a story · 30 points
HN discussionhttps://ciq.com/legal/eula/rocky-linux-from-ciq/ " .... The license granted in this Section 4 is conditioned upon Customer’s and its Authorized Users ’compliance with this Agreement. To the extent that the Software provided to you is not under an open source license, ...." missed that part? Now check the RHEL EULA wrt distributing the SOURCES of the FOSS based binaries.
Comment linking /legal/eula/rocky-linux-from-ciq/
on “Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened”Submitted Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionas seen on the about page[0] "Named in honor of CentOS co-founder Rocky McGaugh" "Gregory Kurtzer, our CEO and founder," the other CentOS guy. [0] https://ciq.com/company/founding-story/
Comment linking /company/founding-story/
on “Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened”Submitted Why a 'frozen' distribution Linux kernel isn't the safest choice for security as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCracks in the Ice: Why a 'frozen' distribution Linux kernel isn't the safest choice for security: https://ciq.com/blog/why-a-frozen-linux-kernel-isnt-the-safe... This is an executive summary of research that my colleagues Ronnie Sahlberg and Jonathan Maple did, published as a whitepaper with all the numeric details here: https://ciq.com/whitepaper/vendor-kernels-bugs-stability/
Comment linking /whitepaper/vendor-kernels-bugs-stability/
on “Are all Linux vendor kernels insecure? A new study says yes, but there's a fix”Submitted History Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe support is provided by a company called CIQ rather than the engineers behind Rocky itself. You can even see their support tiers on their website (NASA picked Advanced) https://ciq.com/support/rocky-linux/
Comment linking /support/rocky-linux/
on “NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux”Submitted History Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSo you think Red Hat's engineering efforts mean nothing because their product is licensed under many open source licenses? That seems unfair when Rocky/CIQ explicitly uses Red Hat's 10-year support as an advertisement point and contribute nothing to that fair? https://ciq.com/support/rocky-linux/ With regular updates and a 10-year committed support lifecycle for each major release, Rocky Linux is ideal for use in en…
Comment linking /support/rocky-linux/
on “How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm to the Linux Community”