
Be sure to set your installation medium as the first boot priority in the BIOS. Now grab your bootable USB drive and plug it into your system and reboot. With the ISO image at hand, you can make the USB drive bootable using the UNetbootin tool or dd command.

The Cockpit web console now features an improved metrics performance page that helps to diagnose the cause of high memory, CPU, and network bandwidth spikes. There are also new improvements to OpenSSL 3.0. However, this can be configured to allow remote root access during installation or much later. This is aimed at preventing hackers from breaching the system via brute force attacks.

With Rocky Linux 9, remote root login via SSH password authentication is disabled by default. In addition, NFS introduces the “eager write” mount option to help reduce latency. This permits direct access to byte-addressable persistent memory and helps to avoid the latency of using traditional block I/O conventions. The XFS file system now supports Direct Access (DAX) operations. It also ships with the latest software packages such as Python 3.9, Node.JS 15, Ruby 3.0.3, PHP 8.0, and Perl 5.32. Rocky Linux 9 ships with the latest language runtimes, compilers including GCC 11.2.1, Go (1.17.1), Rust (1.58.1), and LLVM LLVM (13.0.1). Each screen now has the ability to use a different refresh rate from the others.
