SUSE introduced the SUSE Liberty Linux project, which aims to provide a single service to support and manage mixed infrastructures that use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS distributions in addition to SUSE Linux and openSUSE. The initiative includes:
- Providing unified technical support, which allows you not to contact the manufacturer of each distribution kit used separately and solve all problems through one service.
- Providing a portable toolkit based on SUSE Manager that automates the management of mixed information systems based on solutions from different vendors.
- Organization of a single process for delivering updates with bug fixes 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 in place of the classic CentOS 8, which was discontinued at the end of 2021. It is expected that CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 users will be able to migrate their systems to the SUSE Liberty Linux distribution, which retains 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 original SRPM packages from RHEL 8.5, but the kernel package is replaced with its own version, based on the Linux 5.3 kernel branch and created by rebuilding the kernel package from the SUSE Linux distribution Enterprise 15 SP3. The distribution kit is formed only for x86-64 architecture. Ready builds are not yet available for testing with SUSE Liberty Linux.
In summary, SUSE Liberty Linux is a new distribution based on a rebuild of RHEL packages and the SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel that is supported by SUSE and can be centrally managed using the SUSE Manager platform. Updates for SUSE Liberty Linux will follow RHEL updates.
Source: opennet.ru