Contributing to Rocky Linux in the right way

Since IBM killed CentOS, a bunch of new distros popped up to fill in the gap left by CentOS, a free and open source linux distro catered for enterprise usage on the server. I took interest in Rocky Linux, since it was created by the original founder of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer(we are basically best friends on Mattermost now).

When they released their first release candidate yesterday, April 30 2021, we all began testing it. Soon enough, @jorp on mattermost started a contest, and decided to award someone a unique badge on the rocky linux forums to whoever was the first one to spin up a Minecraft server on the latest Rocky Linux release. Sure enough, I won the prize, with a time of just 10 minutes, from when @jorp announced the race to when I got the mc server running.

@jorp announcing the race

My Minecraft server running

And just like that, I got my unique forum badge.