CIQ Resource Library

A free, open-source enterprise Linux distribution 100% binary compatible with RHEL. CIQ is the founding commercial sponsor of Rocky Linux, which powers 2.75 million actively deployed instances across financial services, healthcare, government, research, and technology. Community Rocky Linux is the right choice for many workloads and organizations. For teams that need FIPS-validated cryptography, committed CVE timelines, IP indemnification, or long-term pinned support, RLC Pro builds on this foundation.

CIQ's free tier, with variants purpose-built for major hardware ecosystems.

• RLC+ NVIDIA includes the complete NVIDIA AI and networking stack validated and ready out-of-the-box with CUDA Toolkit and DOCA-OFED pre-integrated, eliminating hours of driver setup before a single GPU-accelerated job runs.
• RLC+ AMD, coming soon, delivers AMD Instinct GPU drivers and ROCm support pre-integrated.

When requirements extend to LTS, FIPS validation, production SLOs, and indemnification, that is where RLC Pro begins.

A complete rethinking of what an Enterprise Linux vendor owes its customers. RLC Pro provides direct bug fixes, committed CVE timelines, Long-Term Support, and FIPS 140-3 as an all-inclusive subscription with no inventory tracking. Every enterprise requirement is treated as a baseline, not an add-on: binary compatibility, security, update SLAs, FIPS validation, indemnification, and support from engineers who helped build Rocky Linux.

A security-hardened variant of RLC Pro preconfigured for high-compliance environments. Ships 95%+ DISA STIG and 99% CIS compliant at first boot, no manual configuration required. Active defense is embedded directly in the OS: Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) detects exploitation as it occurs, not after. Hardened memory allocator, hardened glibc and OpenSSH, cryptographically signed packages, and an SBOM per image provide layered protection against entire classes of vulnerabilities before they are known or disclosed.

Built with an AI-first mindset from the kernel layer up. The CIQ Linux Kernel (CLK), CUDA Toolkit, and DOCA-OFED ship commercially authorized and pre-integrated: drivers, kernel modules, and runtime dependencies validated together before release. PyTorch and vLLM combinations tested per release. The same validated stack runs identically on bare-metal, AWS, GCP, Azure, and sovereign on-premises infrastructure. Secure Boot, Confidential Computing, and a per-image SBOM included as standard.

Enterprise-grade stateless cluster provisioning. Warewulf Pro manages the full lifecycle of bare-metal compute nodes via a web UI. Nodes boot from a known image every time, so configuration drift does not accumulate and new clusters deploy in days rather than weeks.

Enterprise infrastructure automation built on AWX. Ascender Pro delivers workflow orchestration, configuration management, compliance reporting, and drift remediation at fleet scale. CVE dashboards and exportable audit records are generated as a byproduct of normal operations, not a separate staff project.

The leading open-source container runtime for HPC and scientific computing. Apptainer runs containers without root privileges and integrates natively into shared, multi-tenant cluster environments where Docker is not appropriate.

A cloud-native workload orchestration platform for AI and HPC that keeps data, models, and computation on infrastructure you control. Fuzzball unifies model training, fine-tuning, validation, and inference in a single portable workflow: on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. Integrates with existing Slurm and PBS Professional deployments.

CIQ's performance-optimized Linux kernel built on the upstream kernel.org latest long-term release. CLK delivers GPU hardware support ahead of traditional enterprise distributions, AI inference optimizations, and scheduler improvements. CLK is the kernel foundation of RLC Pro AI.

A compatibility bridge enabling organizations to run RHEL-certified software on Rocky Linux without requalification. CIQ Bridge closes the gap between upstream Rocky Linux and certified enterprise software ecosystems, and provides a migration path from CentOS 7.

A searchable catalog of software and hardware verified compatible with CIQ's product portfolio. C3 gives architects and procurement teams a trusted reference for validated integrations, reducing evaluation risk when building on the CIQ stack.

The central hub for CIQ product access. Organizations use the CIQ Portal to manage licenses, download ISOs and installers, access documentation, and evaluate products before purchase, from a developer license to an enterprise trial to full production deployment.