Where I work, our target devices run RHEL but many of our dev workstations run Rocky Linux.

If the software I write behaves on my workstation but then malfunctions on my target device because a bug was only fixed in Rocky Linux, that would be very annoying.

I want stuff to run the exact same way on both so that I can develop workarounds if needed before even deploying to the targets.

It might be very annoying but I still don't think they offer 1:1 bug compatibility, and I don't think they ever did.

CentOS stated: https://www.spinics.net/lists/centos-devel/msg19564.html

> We came up with the phrase "bug-for-bug" compatible during EL5 as a GOAL to aim for. CentOS was NEVER bug-for-bug compatible.

Rocky may have changed that line, but I would be surprised. CentOS was always "good enough".

So get RHEL for your devs then. The only guaranteed bug compatibility

I thought that RHEL was free for developer workstations with the free RHEL developer subscription.

What does Rocky provide you in this situation?

Free for personal use, not workplace.

Interesting, so they don't make a free dev service for corps?

How much does something like this cost a developer as part of an org?

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-...

According to https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/05/10/access-rhe..., the Red Hat Developer Subscription for Teams is zero-cost.