Virtuozzo, an open source virtualization server software company, has published a release of the Virtuozzo Linux 8.4 distribution, built by rebuilding the source code of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 packages. The distribution is fully binary compatible and identical in functionality to RHEL 8.4, and can be used to transparently replace solutions based on RHEL 8 and CentOS 8. ISO images are available for download, 1.6 GB and 4.2 GB in size.
Virtuozzo Linux is positioned as a replacement for CentOS 8, ready for production deployments. Previously, the distribution was used as the base operating system for the virtualization platform developed by Virtuozzo and various commercial products. Virtuozzo Linux is now available without restrictions, free of charge and developed with the participation of the community. The maintenance cycle follows the update release cycle for RHEL 8.
Changes in Virtuozzo Linux 8.4 are fully consistent with changes in RHEL 8.4, including support for working over TCP in Libreswan-based IPsec VPN, stabilization of the declarative nmstate API for managing network settings, Ansible modules for automating role-based access control (RBAC) in IdM (Identity Management), AppStream modules with new branches Python 3.9, SWIG 4.0, Subversion 1.14, Redis 6, PostgreSQL 13, MariaDB 10.5, GCC Toolset 10, LLVM Toolset 11.0.0, Rust Toolset 1.49.0, Go Toolset 1.15.7.
As alternatives to the classic CentOS 8, in addition to VzLinux, AlmaLinux (developed by CloudLinux, together with the community), Rocky Linux (developed by the community under the guidance of the founder of CentOS with the support of a specially created company Ctrl IQ) and Oracle Linux are also positioned. In addition, Red Hat has made RHEL available free of charge to open source organizations and individual developer environments of up to 16 virtual or physical systems.
Source: opennet.ru