SUSE has introduced the SUSE Liberty Linux project, aimed at providing a unified service for supporting and managing mixed infrastructures that use SUSE Linux and openSUSE, along with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS distributions. The initiative includes:
- Providing unified technical support that allows users to avoid contacting each distribution's vendor separately and resolve all issues through a single service.
- Offering portable tools based on SUSE Manager, automating the management of mixed information systems using solutions from different vendors.
- Establishing a unified process for delivering updates that fix bugs and vulnerabilities, covering different distributions.
Additional details have emerged: as part of the SUSE Liberty Linux project, SUSE has prepared its own edition of the RHEL 8.5 distribution, built using the Open Build Service platform and suitable for use instead of the classic CentOS 8, which was discontinued at the end of 2021. It is expected that users of CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 will be able to transition their systems to the SUSE Liberty Linux distribution, which maintains full binary compatibility with RHEL and packages from the EPEL repository.
The new distribution is interesting in that the user space content in SUSE Liberty Linux is formed by rebuilding the source SRPM packages from RHEL 8.5, but the kernel package has been replaced with its own version, based on the Linux kernel 5.3 branch and created by rebuilding the kernel package from the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 distribution. The distribution is only offered for the x86-64 architecture. Ready builds of SUSE Liberty Linux are currently not available for testing.
In summary, the SUSE Liberty Linux product represents a new distribution based on rebuilt RHEL packages and the SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel, which is covered by SUSE technical support and can be centrally managed using the SUSE Manager platform. Updates for SUSE Liberty Linux will be released following the RHEL updates.
Source: opennet.ru
