A systems administrator is tasked with deploying a new web server. The company's existing infrastructure and deployment scripts are standardized around tools that manage .rpm packages. Which of the following Linux distributions should the administrator choose to maintain compatibility with the current environment?
The correct answer is Rocky Linux. Rocky Linux is a community-supported distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code and is binary-compatible with it. Like other distributions in the RHEL family (including Fedora, CentOS, and AlmaLinux), it uses the RPM Package Manager and the DNF or YUM front-end. Debian and Ubuntu are Debian-based distributions that use the .deb package format with the dpkg and apt tools. Arch Linux uses its own package manager, pacman, which handles .pkg.tar.zst packages and is not compatible with RPM or dpkg.
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