Additional details have emerged about the SUSE Liberty Linux project, which was announced this morning by SUSE without technical specifics. It turns out that the project has prepared a new edition of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 distribution, built using the Open Build Service platform and suitable for use as a replacement for classic CentOS 8, which reached the end of its support in late 2021. Users of CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 are expected to be able to migrate their systems to the SUSE Liberty Linux distribution, which offers full binary compatibility with RHEL and packages from the EPEL repository.
The new distribution is interesting in that the contents of the user space in SUSE Liberty Linux are formed by rebuilding the source SRPM packages from RHEL 8.5, but the kernel package has been replaced with a custom variant, 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 being formed only for the x86-64 architecture. Ready builds of SUSE Liberty Linux are currently unavailable for testing.
In summary, the SUSE Liberty Linux product represents a new distribution based on the rebuilding of 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 in line with RHEL updates.
Source: opennet.ru
