By Stephanie Simone
CIQ, the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux, is releasing C3 (CIQ Compatibility Catalog), a free, publicly accessible resource where anyone in the Rocky Linux ecosystem, from hardware vendors, ISVs and AI platform providers to developers, hobbyists and community contributors, can verify and publish compatibility with Rocky Linux, RLC Pro, RLC Pro AI, and RLC Pro Hardened.
According to the company, C3 offers three levels of compatibility assurance. Community Compatibility is the entry point, open to anyone in the Rocky Linux ecosystem at no cost, where vendors self-attest and publish their compatibility findings to the public catalog. Vendor Verified provides a structured validation path for ISVs, hardware vendors and AI platform providers that need a higher level of documented assurance. CIQ Certified is the highest tier, for organizations and vendors that need formal certification.
“Before you purchase your hardware, you need to know your operating system supports it,” said Arthur Tyde, SVP of business development at CIQ and board chair of the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA). “C3 gives the entire ecosystem a fast, low-friction way to answer it, starting with Community Compatibility at no cost, and scaling to CIQ Certified for those who need the highest level of assurance.”
C3 complements CIQ’s full Rocky Linux portfolio, said CIQ. Organizations deploying RLC Pro, RLC Pro AI or RLC Pro Hardened each bring different infrastructure requirements: Enterprise Linux with long-term support and legal indemnification, AI and HPC workloads demanding throughput and GPU optimization, or security-intensive environments where the cryptographic posture of the OS is subject to audit.
Across all of them, vendors and customers need to know their hardware, software and infrastructure stacks are compatible. C3 is where they confirm it, the company said.
The verification process is available now at https://c3.ciq.com.
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