openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0

-

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0: Community support to simplify container and virtual machine management

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 is now available as the latest version of the operating system geared toward containers and virtualization, designed to be easy to maintain. If this sounds familiar to some, you're not mistaken. The official announcement itself states that this release "is SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0 with rebranded packaging."

In other words, openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 is based on the same source code used to build SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0. However, the first system belongs to the chameleon’s community branch and is available for free, while the second is a commercial product from the company that maintains the ecosystem (at least from a technological perspective).

Because the community-originated system is basically the same product as the commercial one, openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 is an immutable operating system that supports atomic updates through transactional-update, Btrfs snapshot management with Snapper, and the ability to perform rollbacks using these features. It also heavily relies on systemd. As a result, the use of Btrfs is mandatory.

Among the features of openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0, the developers mention that they have provided images with a real-time kernel to reduce latencies for more demanding workloads, a qcow image for KVM, another for VMware, and a new "raw" image with full disk encryption. If using the latter on a virtual machine, users must ensure that the virtualization solution can emulate TPM 2 and UEFI. Another detail mentioned is that SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0 has stopped using the traditional installer of the distribution, which has naturally carried over to the community branch.

There is also a new additional image with packages that isn’t bootable, but rather serves as an offline repository for users who may need it. On the other hand, for the first time, openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 also comes with public cloud images.

Although technologically they are essentially the same, there is one aspect where openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise differ: the support duration. Here it is noted that Leap Micro 5.4 has reached its end of life, while version 5.5 will continue to be maintained until the release of Leap Micro 6.1.

As an operating system that is essentially a reimplementation of the same technologies used by its commercial counterpart, the main new features of openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 have already been mentioned. However, those who want to know all the details can check out the official announcement and the release notes of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0, while the system is available from the download section.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

systemd 256 arrives with run0, the ‘sudo clone’ that aims to improve security

-
Image
systemd 256 arrives with run0, the ‘sudo clone’ that aims to improve security systemd 256 is now a reality, featuring an interesting innovation that could represent a significant change in Linux in the not-too-distant future, although this will ultimately depend on the decisions made by various distributions. Without further delay, let’s go over the main new features. First, we have the introduction of run0, a kind of clone of sudo that aims to enhance security by reducing the attack surface. According to Lennart Poettering, the creator of systemd, this is achieved by ensuring “the target command is invoked in an isolated execution context, freshly forked from PID 1, without inheriting any context from the client,” making its behavior more akin to SSH. And since we’ve mentioned SSH, there’s the systemd-ssh-generator , which has been added to detect if the SSHD binary (the SSH daemon) is present and then link it through socket activation per connection to various sockets depending on
Read more

Kubernetes 1.30 Available, New Version of the Container Orchestrator

-
Image
Kubernetes 1.30, named “Uwurnetes,” has been released as the new stable version of the well-known container orchestrator, which originated at Google and is now under the umbrella of The Linux Foundation. The developers have described this release as "the most beautiful" in the history of the software and have announced it includes a total of 45 new features, with 17 in stable phase, 18 in beta, and 10 in alpha. However, here we will only mention the most important ones. The first notable update in Kubernetes 1.30 is the stable release of the Robust VolumeManager rebuild after restarting the kubelet. This involves a refactoring of the volume manager that allows the kubelet to complete additional information on how existing volumes are mounted during the kubelet's startup. Generally, this makes volume cleanup more robust after restarting the kubelet or the machine. Also arriving in stable phase is the prevention of unauthorized volume mode conversion during volume restora
Read more

Fedora Asahi Remix 40, the new version of Linux for Apple Silicon

-
Image
  Fedora Asahi Remix 40 has been announced as the latest version of the Fedora-based system designed to run on Mac computers with Apple Silicon processors. This version primarily represents an evolution of what was already present, which is quite significant given the project's potential to enhance the Linux desktop experience, particularly in areas like sound. According to Fedora Magazine, Fedora Asahi Remix is developed through close collaboration between the Asahi Linux team and the Fedora Asahi Special Interest Group (SIG). It's worth noting that Asahi Linux is not a traditional distribution but rather a technology platform that enables running Linux on Apple Silicon processors. However, this doesn't stop its Fedora remix from being a reference system. As expected, Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is based on Fedora 40 and uses KDE Plasma 6 as its desktop environment. Therefore, the Wayland session should be the default, especially given the strong support this system has for th
Read more